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Anacron

Anacron - 3.2

runs the periodic daily, weekly, monthly clean up tasks

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All Time: (5.0)
Version 3.2: (5.0)
Selected Version: 3.2
Release Date: 2006-12-25
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 3.2): 4,028
Downloads (all versions): 17,524
Price: free

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Product Description:

Anacron runs the periodic daily, weekly or monthly tasks on your Mac even if the machine (a laptop, for example) spends much of its time either asleep or switched-off. Anacron checks when you reboot and every sixty minutes while the machine is running and to see if the various periodic scripts are overdue, and runs them if necessary.

What's new in this version:

This version includes a universal binary for both the PPC and Intel architectures.

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

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5 PPC or Intel

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Version 3.2:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (4.5)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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Anacron Commentarylink is dead - Version: 3.3, 11/15/2007 07:13PM PST

ol_pip
browser can't locate the server for downloading this.
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Anacron CommentaryAnacron NOT NEEDED on OSX 10.4.8 - Version: 3.2, 12/26/2006 05:08AM PST

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expanderz
Although this works really well, one should note that it is not needed to run the maintenance tasks on OSX 10.4 (Tiger). 10.4.8 has this feature built-in.

Just an FYI ;-)
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Anacron ReviewInstall and forget! - Version: 3.2, 12/26/2006 03:49AM PST

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june8
Excellent!
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