Cocktail Mac

After doing some housekeeping the other day (deleting old docs, removing unwanted apps, etc.) I can no longer mount a CD, any USB Flash drives or any .dmg disc image files. - When I try to run Toast it bounces once in the dock and dies. - The Disc Utility app starts but crashes while "Gathering Disc Information". - Cocktail will run but when I select "Drives" it hangs...

Did you see this KB page? I would do the following and then try again. 1. Empty the trash, and clear all browser caches; 2. Repair disk and repair permissions (go here); 3. Run the 3 periodic maintenance (cron) scripts (see above link); 4. Update the prebinding (see above link); 5. Use a program, such as Cocktail, to clear the system- and user-cache files; 6. Use a...

During the startup, you will see "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen. To leave Safe Mode, restart the computer normally, without holding any keys during startup. ...

You are very welcome. If you can keep your Mac running long enough, then you could try all sorts of maintenance trouble shooting. ...

finally got it running. I First ran disk utility and found out it was fat32. I knew Diskwarrior would perhaps toast a fat32 drive so I skipped it. I skipped ALL mac utilities. ...

I would download the 10.3.9 combo update and reinstall 10.3.9--even if you used the combo in the first place. If doing so doesn't work, then there are only 2 things to do (1) basic maintenance/troubleshooting and (2) reinstallation of your earlier software or Tiger. If you want to do some basic maintenance/troubleshooting first, then here is a list: 1. Empty the trash, and...

Can't live without: Sharepoints Edit: MS Office Makes things faster/easier: Cocktail Preferential Treatment Font Finagler Backup 2 (.Mac) Pacifist

ome across over time that they just cant live without. For example, some might say cocktail, and others might say launchbar. A list like this would be useful for Mac newbies... such as myself. ...

You may have a RAM shortage. Are you having many, or excessively long spinning, SBBOSs? Are your having excessive pageouts? If yes to these questions, then, as mentioned, you may have a RAM shortage. If not, then adding RAM would not help noticeably if at all. Shutting down once is a good idea. But, generally speaking, over a longish period of time, you can speed things up...

except that the latest version of Cocktail is compatible. ...