Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2008

I have purchased Leopard Cocktail for use on a new stationary MacbookPro
that always remains in the house and runs on AC only.
Sometimes the system is left in sleep at night and sometimes it's shut down.
The bottom line is that it's simpler and more expedient for me to run
Cocktail using Pilot and running things manually rather than set it up
on a schedule since I'm never sure where we will be or whether the
system will be up or down when required for auto.
Assuming I'll be running my scripts and permissions manually, I have a
question please;

I think I understand correctly from researching the help section that
the scripts are cumulative; in other words, the weekly does the daily,
and the monthly does the weekly as well. Is this correct?
Secondly, I'm puzzled about when to run permissions and whether running
the daily script is even necessary since it seems once a week, then once
a month on the scripts seems an adequate maintenance program for the system.
What I'm considering is doing a weekly (which does the daily as well)
script every Sunday manually, then doing a monthly script on the last
day of the month.
I'm still vague on when and even if to do permissions.
I should also note that doing permissions heats up the left side of the
book near the speaker section. I'm assuming this is because the HDD is
working harder when this is done.
Generally what I need is some comment from users on whether my plan is
the right way to go.
I'm not all that Mac savvy and a general home user with minimum
additional third party software installed if this helps.
Many thanks for any advice and help.

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Dudley Henriques