Comments on: Auto-remove Old Items from The Trash in Mac OS X http://dinomite.net/2008/auto-remove-old-items-from-the-trash-in-mac-os-x/ Musings without prejudice Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:16:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Drew Stephens http://dinomite.net/2008/auto-remove-old-items-from-the-trash-in-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Drew Stephens Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:32:00 +0000 http://dinomite.net/archives/auto-remove-old-items-from-the-trash-in-mac-os-x#comment-189 <p>Glad this helped!</p> <p>As for mtime v. atime, I actually hadn't even thought about using atime but you're right, it's much more appropriate. Looking through the find(1) man page, ctime (last metadata change time) would work, too.</p> Glad this helped!

As for mtime v. atime, I actually hadn’t even thought about using atime but you’re right, it’s much more appropriate. Looking through the find(1) man page, ctime (last metadata change time) would work, too.

]]> By: nils http://dinomite.net/2008/auto-remove-old-items-from-the-trash-in-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-188 nils Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:16:52 +0000 http://dinomite.net/archives/auto-remove-old-items-from-the-trash-in-mac-os-x#comment-188 <p>Just googled exactly this problem, thanks for the command.</p> <p>But is there any reason why you didn't use -atime instead of -mtime? I mean, access time would be much more useful, wouldn't it? Modification time is not necessarily the time you moved it to trash right?</p> Just googled exactly this problem, thanks for the command.

But is there any reason why you didn’t use -atime instead of -mtime? I mean, access time would be much more useful, wouldn’t it? Modification time is not necessarily the time you moved it to trash right?

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