nerowolfe wrote:
You might consider adding the Maintidget widget and run them manually, as I do, if you really want them to run. They are relatively unnecessary, but I run them just the same although not on a regular basis. Just whenever the mood hits me 🙂
This is pretty much how I operate, using Maintidget to monitor whether the scripts have been run. Thanks to another discussion here (I think nerowolfe was one of those who was helpful) I did discover that my desktop, which is often shut down, had not run the scripts in quite a while.
Yet if I hadn't known that, there's nothing visibly wrong with the machine's operation, and I had been pushing many GB of photos and projects through that Mac for weeks without problems.
My MacBook Pro, which normally sleeps, never misses the script runs, even when asleep overnight. It seems to work as designed.
I seriously believe that the importance of these scripts is overstated by many. I feel even more strongly that way after reading Jeffrey Jones2's descriptions of what they do, which was more detailed and helpful than other explanations I've seen.
Bottom line: If Mac maintenance is a concern, there are more important things to spend our time obsessing over.
