Cocktail

I'm a real beginner to the world of Macs: only had mine for about a year now. What are Onyx and Cocktail, and how do I go about conducting these checks? Thanks a lot! Ankh

Have you done any maintenance on it? Things like Onyx or Cocktail? --J.D.

Hi, I wrote a while ago about poor performance on my late 2008 Macbook Pro 15" unibody. The performance of my mac has been very poor lately. I have installed Cocktail and ran it's as well as running Onyx a few times. Nothing seems to be out of place. ...

I had much the same symptoms: I installed updates (kind of a lot, it seems there's never a good time to stop what I'm doing...), and after rebooting and logging in, the Finder crashed over and over. A second account didn't have any problems, and the first account was fine after a Safe Boot. I downloaded Cocktail and did a deep purge of my cache files (as the affected...

VLC for video, Little Snitch if you fancy added security, Quicksilver as a launcher, Apps like Cocktail or Onyx to simplify system maintenance. ...

Have you run maintenance scripts? Do a search on that--there are programs like Onyx that can do it for you for free, some nice shareware like Cocktail, and instructions on how to do it from Terminal. --J.D.

That might show the files. That or make all invisible files viewable with a utility like Cocktail or Onyx. ...

Well I do not know if one is better than the other. Onyx tends to run everything whereas with Cocktail you can "grade" the scripts easier for "daily," "weekly," and "monthly. ...

Have you tried hitting it sharply with a mallet? What? Seriously, dvb, do you run the maintenance scripts? Use a program like Onyx or Cocktail? There is another Yasu people recommend.

en before. It's like the computer is possessed. I'm not connected to any server or anything. I tried all the usual maintenance tricks...rebuilt permissions, used Cocktail and Preferential Treatment to fix and check things, then used Diskwarrior to rebuild the directory, and nothing has fixed the problem. ...