Maintenance, maintenance with Automator

Carlos Sánchez

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Automator makes me feel sorry for Apple, since very few people take full advantage of this great creation of the Cupertino engineers, so let's get a little bit of the juice inside of it, which is a lot.

Maintenance is a set of maintenance scripts that run directly from the Mac OS X kernel, ensuring extreme speed of execution and something that many of us care about: it does not make it necessary to have another more open application consuming more memory, it uses only what is necessary.

It is totally free and you can download it from Automotive World, a highly recommended page.


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  1.   Antonio López said
    ago 14 years

    I will be a bit zote but I can't set up automatic maintenance. xD god what tolay 😛

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  2.   Carlinhos said
    ago 14 years

    Antonio, if you do not clarify with Automator you can always resort to programs like MainMenu or Onyx ...

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  3.   Antonio López said
    ago 14 years

    Well, I have always used Onyx, the truth is that I have decided to download this new application to try. Although it also works in manual mode, click and go. 🙂

    Thank you!

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  4.   Enrique Mugica said
    ago 14 years

    My computer's operating system is Mac OS X version 10.5.6 and I have Office 2008 for Mac, Version 12.1.0 installed.

    I can only run predesigned macros but it doesn't allow me to create new macros with either Excel or Word.

    In previous versions, I developed a macro in Word with Visual Basic that allowed us to do the following:

    • I was looking for a footnote callout (> search> superscript)
    • It “cut” it and copied it one position more forward so that the punctuation mark would be before the note and not after.
    • It generated a “for i = 1 to N” / “next i”. N is the number of notes in the document.

    In this way, it was very easy to correct the typographical defect in all the callouts at the same time.

    Office 2008 has suppressed Visual Basic and I can no longer operate in the described way. I have tried to develop a similar application with the Automator but it keeps giving the message "The action 'Watch me do' has encountered an error." The following items appear on the screen:

     Select “Myths 4.doc” in the Finder.
     Press ⌘F (this action, or any other that you carry out within Word, already gives the error message)
     Click the "Find next" button.
     Click the "Cancel" button.
     Press ⌘X
     Type ''
     Press ⌘V
     Type ''
     Press Delete
     Type ''

    It has a solution?

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