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Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner

System maintenance, optimization, antivirus.

Version: 5.0.3

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Paid the fee, and got left without working software

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Contributed by: rjmm1 Sunday, September 04 2005 @ 10:58 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

I paid the full fee for Panther Cache Cleaner (PCC) - the precursor to Tiger Cache Cleaner (TCC).

When TCC came out, the author dropped support for PCC. OS X 10.3 was then updated to 10.3.9. PCC does not run on 10.3.9. When I emailed the author about this problem, he completely ignored me - and I am a paying customer.

There is no upgrade path for PCC licence payers to move to TCC: we are expected to pay a full new licence fee.

This was his policy for the change from Jaguar Cache Cleaner to Panther Cache Cleaner too.

MainMenu does most of what I need, and it's freeware.

Both TCC and MainMenu get the rebuild LS database function wrong (all Mac utils I've tried fail to rebuild the LS database successfully). The following works on my Mac:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user /Volumes/

(MainMenu might well be fixed soon - I've emailed what I know about the issue to its author)

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Paid the fee, and got left without working software - rjmm1

That command line should have been:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/
LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user /Volumes/*

(with an asterisk on the end)

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Tuesday, September 06 2005 @ 08:52 AM PDT