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I've already looked at this question:

Where is my crontab file?

But there is no real answer except for 10.7. I'm trying to migrate crontab from an old drive that I can't boot so using crontab -e is out of the question. Just need to read the user crontab file to pull existing jobs to a new server.

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  • Did you try the way described in the answer for 10.7? Are you sure there are any crontabs at all? – nohillside Dec 26 '15 at 10:16
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    Did you attempt to read the manual? Try- man 8 cron – fd0 Dec 26 '15 at 11:31
  • Nope, @fd0, I didn't. But now that I have I can see the answer. Thank you! Simple as this is, I think it's worth adding as an answer which I'd certainly accept if you want. If you choose not to, I will add it myself for the benefit of others. – Eaten by a Grue Dec 26 '15 at 12:52
  • @patrix - yes there are crontabs and yes I checked in /var/cron/tabs but they are not there in 10.8. As noted in the man entry they are in fact in /usr/lib/cron/tabs. – Eaten by a Grue Dec 26 '15 at 12:55
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    The actual and true location is /private/var/at/tabs/ as both /var and the /cron in /usr/lib/cron/tabs are symlinks! – user3439894 Dec 26 '15 at 16:18
  • Closed as dup as the OP didn‘t check whether the answer to the original question actually also worked for versions > Lion. – nohillside Jan 03 '20 at 11:12

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My current version is 10.8 after check : 

  /var/at/tabs

and name of file is value of logged => $user .

For my comp : 

  /var/at/tabs/nikola

Don't change permission use vim or nano ...

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