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Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - Zoidberg - 04-21-2006
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17111
"MainMenu is an easy-to-use menubar item that allows you to run a large set of Mac OS X maintenance, cleaning and optimization tasks. MainMenu can repair permissions, update prebindings, clean system and users caches, empty many browsers caches/history, force empty the trash, clean logs, repair disks, and much more. Most tasks provide feedback in the log window during execution. The batch task function allows you to run many routines at once. Bug reports, feature requests, feedback (positive as well as negative) and anything else are welcome. MainMenu is currently free."
Author just updated it for 10.4.6 today (and apologized for the delay). I know you can do all this from the command line, and that there are other apps that do this (hello Cocktail) but I like it, and the fact I can run it out of the menubar.
UPDATE: Removed the title line about it being donationware; it's technically not. The author accepts payment but does not cripple the software. What kind of shareware is that? (I've since learned that donationware, according to Wikipedia, stipulates payment to a charity, etc.)
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - PeterB - 04-22-2006
Yup, I just saw that... great little utility.
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - Mike Sellers - 04-22-2006
I've been using it for months and it works great.
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - Panopticon - 04-22-2006
New to me, I'll give it a try.
Thanks zoid ::o
(btw-That pix looks like a hootch I lived in a long time ago.)
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - LaserKun - 04-22-2006
Right here too; I have tried about all of them, and like MainMenu too. For now, I am using Onyx, but will probably go back to MainMenu.
I read somewhere that Tiger automatically does some maintenance, not just at night, when the computer is idle. Any more information on that?
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - anonymouse1 - 04-22-2006
Any idea how it compares with YASU?
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - guitarist - 04-22-2006
It's replaced all those others--Cocktail, Onyx, etc.--for me. Best in class.
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - Monster - 04-23-2006
it's just one more thing cluttering up the menubar
Re: Nice little "does almost all" OS X Maintenance app (free/shareware) - MainMenu - guitarist - 04-23-2006
"it's just one more thing cluttering up the menubar"
...is like saying a Swiss Army knife is "cluttering up the knife drawer".
Sure, why have only one good multi-purpose tool when you could have five unecessary, wasteful, inferior ones instead?