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Product Description:
AppleJack is a tool to make it easy to troubleshoot your Mac when no other startup disk is available to you. The script gives you an interactive menu-driven environment for basic disk check/repair, permissions repair, .plist validation, cache cleanup, and swap file removal. You can do basic system maintenance even if your GUI won't start up at all, simply by booting into single user mode, and typing 'applejack'.
Feedback: In order to make it easier for me to keep track of development of this application, please direct requests for enhancements and all bug reports to the sourceforge.net project page.
You can post features you'd like to see added at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=79562&atid=557037
Bug Reports should be sent to: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=79562&atid=557034
What's new in this version:
- [Feature request 1214481]: When corrupt preference files are moved into the Preferences (Corrupt) folder they are now given the same path (directory structure) that they had in the Preferences folder, so a user can see where the files existed before being moved.
- [Bug fix 1025554]: Added an alias test to the preference file validator, so it will not identify aliases with .plist extensions as corrupt. (This had been a problem, for example, with BBEdit's "Recent Items" aliases.
- AppleJack now correctly handles cases where a requested preference directory does not exist.
- [Bug fix 1214475]: Removed .xml files from the preference file check routine, except in the /var/db/SystemConfiguration directory (applies to 10.2 only).
- Added checking of root preferences (/var/root/Library/Preferences).
- Improved handling of background processes, but still a long way to go to get the interface perfectly clean.
- In the virtual memory cleanup, added an option (in manual mode only) for users to delete their safe sleep image. (10.4.x only.) This will probably be rolled into a separate function in an upcoming release.
- In the virtual memory cleanup of the application, added removal of working sets (in app_profile) to the virtual memory cleanup routines. (10.4.x only.)
- Improved the user directory listing. It grab directories from NetInfo instead of from just doing an `ls` on the User directory. This might yield extraneous entries (especially entries for system daemons etc.), but is cleaner than guessing at different end-users' folder structure.
- Improved the handling of the built-in commands to always use the ones in the /bin or /usr/bin directory, if available. This should help alleviate problems due to user-installed custom commands by the same name as well as custom aliases to those commands.
- If startup options are incorrectly entered, AppleJack now reports back correct usage rather than just ignoring the startup options (Thanks Charly).
- Standardized exit codes to conform to ideas in /usr/include/sysexits.h
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or later and a PowerPC. 1.4.2 is NOT yet compatible with Intel Macs. (See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/applejack_feedback.html#storytop for more details).
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| Overall Rating: |  (4.9) |
Features: | (4.8) |
Support: | (4.7) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.9) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.9) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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DONATION - Version: 1.5, 10/9/2009 08:49AM PST
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dklawless
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SF & Macupdate list an AJ 1.5.1.... 
- Version: 1.5, 9/18/2009 02:56PM PST
(0 of 3 users found this comment useful)
Gennx30Some claim that if you reinstall 1.5 from scratch it will work
Odd. The developer wasnt going to have a retail copy of SL until at least Sept 2....
youd think a SF developer would have had it a month early
Also inferred that since SL had changed little in terms of code-he could take off 15 mins and dash out a few lines of code and we would have AJ for SL-this on Aug 30...
Since it is free, I can hardly complain-but other suspect utilities such as XUPPORT, APE and SILK which I paid for are notable by their absence near a month after retail release-since im sure they had access to the developer final or GM well before that
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- SF & Macupdate list an AJ 1.5.1.... (5 replies)
it partially works in SN - Version: 1.5, 9/9/2009 06:13AM PST
(4 of 6 users found this comment useful)
alberto2602- repair permissions
- clear user cache
- user preferences
Other functionalities are working.
I am waiting for a 100% working functionalities.
thanks in advance to the developer
Having used this application for years I can recall numerous times that this untility has save me countless hours of work. I just visited the developers site to find out he is in the same pinch as he was with the move to OS10.5. He is strapped for money to develop the update to Snow Leopard <http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/forums/forum/271611/topic/3386280?message=7708116>.
Listed as FREEWARE he will accept donations. Please consider a donation to help him. It won't take much to fund a solution. EX: an external hard drive and Snow Leopard. The link is: <http://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=79562>.
R/ Deaner