Cocktail

I downloaded it - now what?

of everything. I no like . . . it dump. It did not like my TechTool Pro partition for some reason, and my paranoia led me to check Permissions with the updated Cocktail which takes, it seems, forever. ...

also got Cocktail long ago. Surprising how much better things do when you use them periodically. ...

party system utilities. CarbonCopyCloner will ask for authorization and then hang while "searching for disk permissions" until I force quit. Other programs like cocktail do the same thing. ...

Thanks I went to Onyx website, and found that it is a general system maintaining software. And then I compared Onyx to Mac cleanse and found that Mac cleanse is more like a software to protect the privacy of Mac users. Here are two screenshots of them. Onyx http://www.titanium.free.fr/gfx/preview/us_onyx.png Mac cleanse...

For what it is worth, I also use Onyx. Before I discovered that freeware I spent the like $10 for the shareware "Cocktail" based on a recommendation in one of the Mac magazines. That I like because you can run it on a daily, weekly, monthly schedule for clearing caches, fixing permissions, running scripts, and that other arcane stuff I do not understand. That is an...

There are several Maintenance Apps available (OnyX, Cocktail, MacJanitor, Macaroni, Anacron, MainMenu)some are freebies and others require a fee. AFAIK, they all pretty much do the same thing to a degree .... it's up to the individual to make a choice on the one to download ... I suggest you download a couple of different apps and test them out to see which one appears...

Generally speaking, it's not a bad idea to open Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and run repair permissions. Briefly, permissions control who/what has access to the various files, folders and applications on your system. Permissions are something that are a function of the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X and are quite responsible for the much improved security of Mac...

I have some serious account issues, that I really hope someone can help me out with. I run a PB 12" 1.33 Ghz with 10.5.2. History I have recently upgraded my hard drive. I cloned the old one with the latest Carbon Copy Cloner. Before cloning I run disk repair and permissions repair with Disk Utility. No problem anywhere. Replaced the old disk with the new cloned one...

After upgrading to Leopard, I can't write to my external SCSI Raid. It's formatted "Mac OS Extended", but under "Sharing & Permissions" in the info window, it says "You can only read". Then under the Name and Privilege columns, everyone is toggled to Read & Write, "Ignore ownership on this volume" is checked on, but all these things are grayed out and un-selectable. The...