Cocktail Mac

ple in this thread were losing their iLife apps and I was terrified of losing mine in the clean install, as I have lots of photos, music, and movies. Anyway, if Cocktail does that, then users now have two options. ...

At this point, I would try some good old basic maintenance/troubleshooting, including: 1. Empty the trash, and clear all browser caches; 2. Repair disk and repair permissions (go here) (I know that you have repaired permissions plenty of times); 3. Run the 3 periodic maintenance (cron) scripts (see above link); 4. Update the prebinding (see above link); 4. Use a...

What version of Cocktail are you using? ...

Amen to the comments about Nortons. But in response to "keeping it fast" there are only a limited number of things you can do short of major hardware upgrades or a new faster Mac. Cleaning up the cache files etc. with Cocktail has already been mentioned Be sure and have journaling turned on as that enables Panther's hot file clustering and file optimization processes...

From MacFixIt

From MacFixIt;

haven't tried mac cocktail or any other 3rd party app and I'm pretty sure that archive and install will take care of the problem. Any other suggestions? ...

OS X, or any Mac system doesn't use a registry like Windoze. ...

My vote goes to Cocktail, also. I do not leave my Mac on at night, so I run Cocktail once per week. Kepps my machine lean and mean. ...

Well, repairing the permissions appears to have fixed the problem. Thanks! I'll take a look at Cocktail. -=dannyy=-