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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Compost and Snow Leopard - Version: 1.9.5, 8/30/2009 01:28PM PST
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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.