Cocktail Mac

Repairing permissions is a fundamental manteinance operation, it's good to run it weekly, and in particular after software updates... a good tool for OS X maintenance is Cocktail, it runs several optimization scripts for your Mac!

hat can be archive and delete the old files. These tasks are triggered by the cron system of Unix, thus the term cron tasks. In order for these tasks to run your Mac must be booted and awake. ...

you don't need to defrag in osX... you can find a lot of post on this topic here in macosx.com, just do a fast 'search' on the forum to obtain more info about this... Actually I don't know how the scandisk on windows is working, but a very important maintanance in osX is to go to application>Utility>Disk Utility and -after choosing your volume- do a Repair Disk...

use cocktail or macjanitor to periodically clean out your system's cache files. ...

pending on several factors OS X can quickly use up 3 GB of disk space in swapfiles, log files, archived log files, etc, all of which are invisible files. If your Mac is not awake 24x7 you need to get something like Cocktail or Onyx and run it at least weekly to clean out the various OS X files that accumulate. ...

Try turning the Mac OS X firewall off to see if that is a factor. If none of these helps, refer it to your ISP yet again. ...

t the present time there are no known viruses, trojans, or spyware capable of infecting OS X. That is subject to change at any time. However it is possible for a Mac to forward an infected file to other computers. ...

Hi. My problem lies with not being able to go to apple/finder menu to shut down or restart my G4 800 Mac. Panther is installed and every possible upgrade is made. I am forced to shut down by pressing the power button on the G4 box for it to work. I can log out and do a sleep via the finder but the others just...nothing happens. I have tryed to reboot via holding...

I know there's been a thread on this before, but thought it would be nice to revive it and have an updated version. Let's see, it's tough keeping it to 10 but (and avoiding iApps)... Cocktail (great for keeping things running smoothly) Safari Enhancer (deactivates cache and much more) Cookie Muncher (manages your cookies)