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Mac "Maintenance scripts" Eliminated!
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1949680" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>As of Sequoia, the Mac OS no longer runs daily, weekly and monthly "maintenance" scripts. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/475455/what-happened-to-the-periodic-scripts-on-macos-sequoia[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I got confirmation from the makers of Maintenance and OnyX that this is correct. Those actions have been removed from both apps for the Sequoia versions. </p><p></p><p>I'm assuming that those scripts are no longer necessary because the logs that those scripts used to clean up no longer exist.</p><p></p><p>I have mixed feelings about this.</p><p></p><p>If they eliminated those logs, they have done away with a valuable tool for figuring out what is going on when your Mac is acting strangely.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, runaway log files were a not-insignificant problem for a very few users. One that was hard to figure out unless you found someone who recognized the situation. No log files means no more runaway logs. So one more nasty problem that was experienced by some Mac users is now extinct.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1949680, member: 190607"] As of Sequoia, the Mac OS no longer runs daily, weekly and monthly "maintenance" scripts. [URL unfurl="true"]https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/475455/what-happened-to-the-periodic-scripts-on-macos-sequoia[/URL] I got confirmation from the makers of Maintenance and OnyX that this is correct. Those actions have been removed from both apps for the Sequoia versions. I'm assuming that those scripts are no longer necessary because the logs that those scripts used to clean up no longer exist. I have mixed feelings about this. If they eliminated those logs, they have done away with a valuable tool for figuring out what is going on when your Mac is acting strangely. On the other hand, runaway log files were a not-insignificant problem for a very few users. One that was hard to figure out unless you found someone who recognized the situation. No log files means no more runaway logs. So one more nasty problem that was experienced by some Mac users is now extinct. [/QUOTE]
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