Cocktail

so - this issue is continuing, with no real rhyme or reason as to what is causing it. It will randomly "fix" itself, but more often than not the machine is not able to talk to the world from mac applications. This appears to be systemwide, as I created a new user and experienced the same issues under the new account. I am going to run Cocktail on it today; but do you have...

I have used onyX and cocktail to clean out caches and files. In all browsers safari, IE, netscape, firefox, camino, etc. I get pages that will not load, and pages that load partially. ...

How can I get my Quicktime and iTunes running again? I have already run Disk Warrior and OSx Cocktail, but it still won't work. I can get Quickytime to run if streaming video from the web, but it will not open an mpeg file from my desktop. itunes won't play if I put in an audio cd in the drive, or if I try to "open with" from the desktop cd icon after I've inserted one into...

You could also use a program like Cocktail which has a Force Empty Trash option. ...

disk on bus A. I then upgraded to Tiger but the problem still persists. I have tried repairing permissions and have used support tools like cocktail etc to check for hard drive issues and clear the cache files. ...

and found only 4, all seemed to be innocent ie not apps. Ran Cocktail and cleaned all caches. Rebooted and still would not load the site www.rubensoft.com or related links. ...

Repaired permissions with Cocktail and the update works fine now. Lesson learned. ...

i ran cocktail but no help. ...

My iMac 400 120GB hard drive running OS10.2.8 has been to the shop for a needed new drive. All my diagnostics like Disk Warrior, MacSweep, Cocktail say all is well but I have a noise that started before my drive began to fail. The drive is new and fine but the noises persist. ...

I use Onyx because its free (Cocktail costs €15). I suspect that most of the functions are not really necessary, as repairing disc permissions can be done with disc utility (especially after installing new software), and as ElDiabloConCaca says, checking the HD with the installation disc occasionally is easy and recommended. I use Onyx for running the cron scripts as I...