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TrashLater FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

1 General Questions
   1.1 My browser does not display your web pages.

2 Using TrashLater
   2.1 I receive email messages from the "Cron Daemon"
   2.2 Error email messages from the "Cron Daemon"
   2.3 How do I edit TrashLater's cron table?
   2.4 The "Show Progress Window" button does not work

3 Contacting tredje design
   3.1 How can I become a beta tester?
   3.2 When will TrashLater become available in my language?
   3.3 I think I found a bug. What should I do?
   3.4 My question is still unanswered. What can I do now?

2 Using TrashLater

2.1 I receive email messages from the "Cron Daemon"

The email contains just one line:

INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer.

This message is generated when the "cron" scheduling mechanism was asked to open a application for you at a time when you were not logged in (maybe someone else was?).

The bottom line is, the window-based TrashLater Client can only be started when you are logged in. This is true even if it does not attempt to open a window. There is also a background-only version of the client that does not suffer from this limitation, but this one is not enabled for unregistered users.

To deal with this situation, you have a couple of alternatives:

Ignore the emails (and create a rule to automatically delete the messages), but remember that no checking will be done while you are logged out.
NB. Since Mac OS 10.3 (Jaguar) you can stay logged in when fast user switching is enabled.
If you are a licensed user, you can turn off the option to "show a progress" window and a background-only client will be used instead - whether you are logged in or not.
NB. For unregistered users, this option works differently: the window-based client is still used; it simply hides its progress window. Therefore, it still only works when you are logged in, sorry.

N.B. Beginning with version 4.0 of TrashLater. The window-based client will only be launched when the user is logged in.

2.2 Error email messages from the "Cron Daemon"

The email contains lines like:

2007-10-08 23:43:10.241 TrashLater[19399] Unable to (re)move 'NeoOffice.app'.

Messages like this will be generated in version 4.1 of TrashLater. What happened here is that an item could not be modified, usually due to insufficient access rights. A typical example is an item that is owned by the admin user. If that were the case, then you can fix it in the Finder:

locate the item in the Finder;
select it and open its Get Info window;
expand the "Ownership & Permissions" section; it may read: You can "Read only";
expand the "Details" and change the "Owner" to your account; you may need to unlock it first (click the lock and authenticate yourself as the admin user);
if required, change the "Access" to "Read & Write"; you should now see: You can "Read & Write".
close the Get Info window.

A the time when the error occurred, TrashLater re-set timer for this item as if it were a new item.

Brave users may also use the Terminal application for this (replace "admin" by whatever your admin user and is called):

su - admin
cd /to/where/the/item/is
sudo chmod -R a+rw item_name

2.3 How do I edit TrashLater's cron table?

Every user on your computer can do the following: open the Terminal application and type:

crontab -l

This will produce something like this (the path shown here is incomplete):

## Attention! The following line is automatically updated by TrashLater:
9 * * * *       /Applications/Utilities/TrashLater.app

You can edit this crontab entry directly in the Terminal. You could use "crontab -r" to delete it, or "crontab -e" to edit it in a UNIX editor such as "vi". For more information, view the manual page; in the Terminal, type:

man crontab

2.4 The "Show Progress Window" button does not work

Common symptoms for this disease are:

The "Pause on Errors" button does not become active (clickable) or inactive as the "Show Progress Window" is selected or deselected.
The window-less background client is not used, i.e. you see the name "TrashLater Client" in the Terminal window as you type "crontab -l".

As a workaround, you can type this command in the Terminal application:

        defaults write se.tredje.trashlater ShowProgress 0

where "0" means off, i.e. dot not show the progress window, or you could use "1" to turn it on.

Furthermore, registered users should then launch and quit TrashLater to allow it to update the cron table (crontab). Otherwise the window-less background client is not used. When ShowProgress was set to 0, the name "TrashLater Client" should no longer be listed by "crontab -l" in the Terminal application.

Which version of TrashLater are you using?
Which Mac OS X version do you use?
If it crashed, when did it happen? (Please include the file ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/TrashLater.crash.log).

3.4 My question is still unanswered. What can I do now?

Why don't you post your question on this contact form?

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