Task Scheduler?

cygsidcygsid
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in macOS edited January 2014
is there a user-friendly (GUI) way to schedule tasks in OS X? Something similar to Windows's Scheduled Tasks.. I am asking because I am trying to see if I can schedule Disk Indexing instead of manually starting it from a drive's inspector window. Thanks.

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    devnulldevnull Posts: 31member
    [quote]Originally posted by cygsid:

    <strong>is there a user-friendly (GUI) way to schedule tasks in OS X? Something similar to Windows's Scheduled Tasks.. I am asking because I am trying to see if I can schedule Disk Indexing instead of manually starting it from a drive's inspector window. Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    The "scheduler" in Mac OS X is the cron daemon. Apple hasn't included a GUI for it but you can go and get Cronix from <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx"; target="_blank">www.versiontracker.com/macosx</a>



    Works very well. You'll have to watch the process list in either top or processviewer to get the exact sintax of the indexing process but once you do you'll be able to schedule it with cron.



    Good luck!



    [ 09-16-2002: Message edited by: DevNull ]</p>
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