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Product Description:
Compost is a preference pane and daemon combination that allows each user on a machine to specify time limits and size limits for the contents of their trash. This allows users to break the habit of emptying the trash immediately trying to save space, and regain the ability to recover from the "oops" of tossing a file unintentionally. Also provides on-demand emptying of the trash on specific volumes and immediately deletion of files and replacement for the trash's Get Info window that provides useful information.
What's new in this version:
- Added to the background app the ability to completely ignore a mounted disk. This is a slight efficiency improvement over just overriding and disabling all the limits, and works around an observed issue relating to a troublesome interaction between Compost, volume duplication software and the OS.
- Added to the preference pane a checkbox to control the "ignore" flag (above) for a volume.
- In TrashInfo, fixed a bug that would result in a crash when TrashInfo next terminated if the user had disabled the display of the icon menu.
- Corrected some issues with the German localization.
- Simplified the UI for secure deletion.
- Added per-volume override of secure-delete setting. (Preference Pane and background app)
- Items placed in the trash via DeskTrash can be restored via a new "Put Away" command in the context menu.
- Added to TrashInfo the ability for the user to override the menu bar icons by placing files named title_empty.png and title_full.png in a folder named com.splook.TrashInfo inside ~/Library/Application Support or /Library/Application Support.
- Fixed context menu for Leopard.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- 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 higher
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Compost and Snow Leopard - Version: 1.9.5, 8/30/2009 01:28PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
GWeston
Excellent trash management utility 
- Version: 1.9.5, 3/22/2009 02:17PM PST
Eric van Beest
Macs have had a trash can for over 25 years, but the OS still has no means for you to control what happens with the contents...other than just a manual "Empty Trash". Compost goes a long way to correcting this.
Windows' trash management at least provides you with options as the size of the trash. Mac OS never did, which may be considered odd, or perhaps it was just left as an opportunity for the likes of Compost.
You can tell Compost how long to leave stuff in the trash before it goes funky and has to be deleted. Or you can tell it how large the trash may be, in total or as a proportion of disk size. It can delete files securely if you need this. And, you can have different trash behavior for every connected drive.
$20 for a one-trick pony? It's worth it for me.
Windows' trash management at least provides you with options as the size of the trash. Mac OS never did, which may be considered odd, or perhaps it was just left as an opportunity for the likes of Compost.
You can tell Compost how long to leave stuff in the trash before it goes funky and has to be deleted. Or you can tell it how large the trash may be, in total or as a proportion of disk size. It can delete files securely if you need this. And, you can have different trash behavior for every connected drive.
$20 for a one-trick pony? It's worth it for me.
Absolutely Mandatory App - Version: 1.9.5, 12/31/2008 09:58AM PST
cornsyrupkills
This is a must have for any machine. I've been using it for several years and love it. I have it running silently in the background with no menubar icon so the only time I see it is when the box pops up to tell me there's a new version. Is there any way to implement Sparkle auto updates on this though?
The other, more serious problem, is with the context menu plugin. Mac OS X 10.6 does not load traditional context menu plugins into 64-bit apps (such as Finder, for example). The recommended fix is to recreate the plugin's functionality as entries in the Services menu, which as conversions go is not small. I am working on it, but it'll be a few days.