I was surfing the net for tips on how to keep my new Imac fast and came across this "Sudo Periodic Daily Weekly Monthly". What does this mean and what does it do?
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Sudo Periodic Daily Weekly Monthly
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As typed? It'll give you an error as sudo should not be Sudo. I suspect the same is true for all the other words too.
As to what it does if the command is correct? It gains super-user privaleges (the sudo part) and runs the daily, weekly and monthly housekeeping scripts that tidy up unnecessary items on your Mac. The only reason to do this is that the housekeeping scripts tend to be scheduled to run at night when your Mac is probably turned off or asleep so they don't get run.
This is certainly not critical and you are unlikely to notice any difference if you do this.
For more information open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and type
As to what it does if the command is correct? It gains super-user privaleges (the sudo part) and runs the daily, weekly and monthly housekeeping scripts that tidy up unnecessary items on your Mac. The only reason to do this is that the housekeeping scripts tend to be scheduled to run at night when your Mac is probably turned off or asleep so they don't get run.
This is certainly not critical and you are unlikely to notice any difference if you do this.
For more information open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and type
Code:
man periodic