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macbook is running slow all of a sudden
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 714667" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>No - the periodic commands do a lot more than that. Basically if you leave your Mac on 24/7 for an entire month, all those scripts would run anyway as part of the housekeeping (or cron) jobs OS X (and other *nix operating systems) carry out, daily, weekly and monthly.</p><p></p><p>These jobs are supposed to run either at the scheduled time or during boot up after the last scheduled time (via launch services). Machines that usually miss their maintenance are laptops that are rarely shut down but spend a lot of time 'asleep'.</p><p></p><p>The scripts basically clean up a bunch of logs, most notably netinfo as well as install and ftp logs. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes people suggest repairing permissions:</p><p></p><p>Sudo diskutil repairpermissions / </p><p></p><p>But, quite honestly, this rarely helps anything thees days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 714667, member: 21101"] No - the periodic commands do a lot more than that. Basically if you leave your Mac on 24/7 for an entire month, all those scripts would run anyway as part of the housekeeping (or cron) jobs OS X (and other *nix operating systems) carry out, daily, weekly and monthly. These jobs are supposed to run either at the scheduled time or during boot up after the last scheduled time (via launch services). Machines that usually miss their maintenance are laptops that are rarely shut down but spend a lot of time 'asleep'. The scripts basically clean up a bunch of logs, most notably netinfo as well as install and ftp logs. Sometimes people suggest repairing permissions: Sudo diskutil repairpermissions / But, quite honestly, this rarely helps anything thees days. [/QUOTE]
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