Cocktail

Preferred you do: For the sake of simplicity. 01. Purchase a new ATA 3.5" hard disk drive, hdd, less than 130 GB in size and at 7200 rpm (revolutions per minute). 02. Install the new hdd (with its jumpers set for 'slave') on top of the current drive. 03. Install 'Tiger' (MacOS X 10.4.x) onto the slave drive. Once you have 'Tiger' installed, and the Mac booted with...

Ha ha ha ha! Love it! Good for you. :D

icons scattered everywhere, random unfiled and forgotten bits. I rebelled in my own workspace. At first, I used Cocktail to remove the desktop completely, but I missed being able to drag clippings to it. ...

sounds like a runway log file, which means that there is somrthing going on that the os doesn't like, so it writes to the logs. if you can, download cocktail and run the cron scripts and clear the caches with it. ...

As I stated above, running the cron scripts with Cocktail did provide with a decent improvement. ...

Hi undershot! Glad it worked. I'm just coming back from Easter Holidays – in the meantime you already got a nice collection of maintenance tools. Let me add _my_ favourite, Cocktail. I paid the little fee (15$ including lifetime upgrades) long time ago and never regretted it. It has some options to tinker with your system and the fabulous "Pilot" feature, which I do run...

Hello! I am on a freshly installed 10.4 system. I made the mistake of having an old Classic program called HexEdit hanging around on my hard drive. The Finder seems to think all my .php, .pl, .html and other files "belong" to HexEdit. I have since deleted HexEdit but the Finder still wants to open my files using HexEdit, instead of Dreamweaver / Safari as it should. I have...

Ok, now things get weirder.... I left my machine on overnight the other day after getting into Cocktail and running all scripts. I noticed that Inactive RAM when down tremendously. I had over 1GB of free RAM. ...

Cleaned Caches and Repaired permissions with OnyX, Cache Out X, Cocktail and Tiger Cache Cleaner. ...

The Network window Crashes First Time I access LAN or other networks. I have a Network with about 6 Macs and 8 Windows machines on, all share access to LAN attached NAS HD (using an embedded Linux server). SOME of the Macs have the Network (from the Go menu) connection window crash (disappears immediately) EVERY time the first time I open it. The second time it stays...