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No jack for ML ?
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AppleJack is not supported past Snow Leopard (10.6.x). There are no plans to keep developing it. There is a 10.7 compatible version in CVS if you care to download and install, but this is the end of the line (from this developer anyway). Thanks for your interest.
Hey, Kristofer. Is this because you feel it is no longer needed, or because it's just too hard to keep up with Apple's undocumented changes?
Both. It is no longer needed for what it was originally intended to do (emergency "roadside" help when you're computer won't start and you don't have a startup cd). Mac OS X recovery partition takes care of that. The only other utility for it is for maintenance, and there are nicer utilities for that. I think it's important to keep a product tied to its original intent and not cobble things on to it in an attempt to keep it relevant. It helped many people through the wonkiness of Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.4, and then on through 10.6.8.
The fact that Apple has explicitly refused to answer the questions I've had as a developer about single user mode is just the icing on the cake.
On top of this, the direction Apple is taking is into a closed wall system where they control not just the hardware, but the software you put on it. There are many good reasons for this in a consumer product, but it's not a good direction for computing in general, and so my story as a loyal Apple user (since 1992!) is probably also drawing to a close.
Anyway, the source code is up here for anyone to take and run with, so have at it. Making something is always better than writing a post like the one I'm writing now.
Kristofer, thanks for a great utility and a long run of obviously laborious updates (given the time and collaborative efforts it's often taken to modify for a new Mac OS). I've been using it since the earliest versions and still do so on a couple of Titanium PowerBooks and my 90-year-old mom's "Sunflower" iMac—all stuck at Tiger. It has almost always restored them to health when they start acting wonky, and has let me look like a Mac guru (which I'm definitely not, except relatively speaking) in solving problems for innumerable friends. I long to have it on my MBP running ML.
Speaking of which, I'm now trying to "roll my own" ML maintenance procedures. I presume (correctly?) that disk and permissions repair in AJ are the same as those available in Disk Utility. However, I perceive that most of the problems AJ solved were as a result of getting rid of corrupt preferences files and dumping thousands of cache files. Are there easy manual ways to do both, either from the Finder or in SU mode?
Another user suggested Marcel Bresink's Tinker Tool System, which I may try. However, this looks like it's designed for experts, and may be a good way for us ordinary mortals to get in trouble. Any comments or suggestions for other good solutions?
Thanks again; I'll miss AppleJack.
applejack was and still is an awesome tool that doe exactly what I need, from the command line, in single user mode. I was able to modify it and get it running fine on 10.8 Mavericks. I am trying to contact Kristofer and check if the project takes contributors. Maybe there are other folks out there who would be willing to help out ;-).
Werner, this is fantastic news!
If you need a beta tester, I'd be happy to help.
Hi there, Has there been any progress since these Mach 2014 posts? I am as keen as anyone to have Applejack working with Mavericks and even Yosemite. Can you tell us what is the current situation, Werner?
Well, it's kind of pointless now that the Recovery Partition is available. Some of the cache clearing now has to be done manually, but it's not rocket-science.
There is still no way to clean the scratch Disk there are no Utilities out there that even know about the scratch disk.