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And it won’t do CRON because reasons

Bugs me too. Your best bet is launchd which solves the problem, but it is a bit of pain to write job definition property lists. More here: https://www.launchd.info

This is a useful library for plists, in case you're interested - https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html

> it is a bit of pain to write job definition property lists

http://launched.zerowidth.com/ makes it easier.

Ironically -- I think this bug is fixed in a like 10.15.3 or so. Eitherway a cron I set up over a year ago before I realized this bug has started mailing me since I updated to Catalina.

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