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 TrashLater X - 4.0automated file (re)moval utility, moves items after a delay |
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 4.0: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Nice idea for GUI lovers but too expensive - Version: 4.0, 11/2/2006 07:38AM PST
MacDefender
Although this application has some nice features it's way to expensive as all this is already build into the system for years. (Until Apple removed or complicated using some parts with their 10.4 'downgrade').
Just start learning to use the power of your shell. A simple 'cronjob' or 'at' together with 'find' could do much more for you. If you need space why not ask your shell to find all documents/files not used for time x and compress them. Or automaticly bzip2 and hide away your trash to remove it later. You can even start to create compressed applications that would still be useable while using half the space (realtime decompression into memory). It's all there for years and free.
So if you need a GUI or don't won't to learn anything new buy this application. Otherwise just learn what's already build into the system.
Just start learning to use the power of your shell. A simple 'cronjob' or 'at' together with 'find' could do much more for you. If you need space why not ask your shell to find all documents/files not used for time x and compress them. Or automaticly bzip2 and hide away your trash to remove it later. You can even start to create compressed applications that would still be useable while using half the space (realtime decompression into memory). It's all there for years and free.
So if you need a GUI or don't won't to learn anything new buy this application. Otherwise just learn what's already build into the system.
Very flexible - Version: 3.5, 7/24/2005 03:01AM PST
Nick Sloan
This app has a lot going for it, and could be useful in many scenarios beyond trash management. But to stick to that topic for a moment, the trouble with most timed trash deleters is that they are defeated if you indulge in that most satisfying action, emptying the trash manually (there, gone, whoosh!). Rubbish is a sophisticated exception: it transparently intercepts trashed items on selected volumes, and hives them away for a specified time. But is still suffers from the other defect, that *all* of that stuff is sticking around taking up space, not just the 0.01% you might possibly want back.
The strength and the weakness of Trash Later X is that it requires you to decide at the point of trashing whether or not there is a risk that you’ll need to recover a file. Anything you “trash” to a monitored holding folder is deleted (or moved or trashed) after a specified time. Of course there is nothing to stop you maintaining a holding folder manually: all that TLX really adds is the convenience of having it monitored and cleaned out at as items expire. If you actually prefer to just have the trash emptied for you, then TLX can do that too.
Where TLX really scores over the opposition is that it is not a permanently running process. You tell it how often you want things checked, and a helper app is briefly run at intervals. Also, the fact that expired items can be transferred to another folder, with or without an alert, opens up all sorts of other file management possibilities. It can even be used as maintenance tool, clearing out caches etc.
The strength and the weakness of Trash Later X is that it requires you to decide at the point of trashing whether or not there is a risk that you’ll need to recover a file. Anything you “trash” to a monitored holding folder is deleted (or moved or trashed) after a specified time. Of course there is nothing to stop you maintaining a holding folder manually: all that TLX really adds is the convenience of having it monitored and cleaned out at as items expire. If you actually prefer to just have the trash emptied for you, then TLX can do that too.
Where TLX really scores over the opposition is that it is not a permanently running process. You tell it how often you want things checked, and a helper app is briefly run at intervals. Also, the fact that expired items can be transferred to another folder, with or without an alert, opens up all sorts of other file management possibilities. It can even be used as maintenance tool, clearing out caches etc.
we were about to buy a €700 software for this purpose, so the guy who mentioned too expensive "think twice". we will be buying our licences just before the 30 day trial runs out.