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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Padawan" data-source="post: 25265" data-attributes="member: 273"><p>Running the tasks and repairing permissions is extremely easy, especially if you have a program that automates them for you.  I personally use OnyX, and with one click, it will run the daily,weekly, and monthly tasks, and also repair the disk permissions (as well as perform various other assorted tasks).  The reason that OS X may sometimes "miss" a task is because of its UNIX heritage.  On UNIX machines that were left running 24/7, tasks were scheduled to run in the late evening/early morning hours when they had the least potential to interrupt users.  Many Mac users do not leave their machines on 24/7 (either shutting down or sleeping), in which case the scripts do not run.</p></blockquote><p></p>