Cocktail

There may be other applications that can do this, but I would start by using Cocktail to rebuild the Launch Services database and update the Locate and Whatis databases. ...

I have a client whose office is primarily Mac users, and one user is having problems with thier Entourage 2004 Calendar, which is causing problems when syncing said calendar to her BlackBerry. The problem primarily seems to be associated with Invitations for events. What happens is that when she receives and accepts an invitation to an event, it works fine and is added...

Fonts or a corrupted font cache in your user account. Font Book can check for damaged or duplicated fonts and Cocktail or Onyx can clear out the cache files. ...

Just as an FYI, you don't have to use Cocktail (or any third-party application) to show or hide hidden files and folders. Use this script. Open script editor and enter this into a blank script, then run it. It will display a dialog asking what you would like to do (show or hide). You can also save this script and have it appear in your Script Menu for easy access later. ...

Store file and the .localized from your Desktop. Use something like cocktail to show these files as there are invisible. Trash the files move your HD icon to the upper right and relaunch the finder or restart. ...

You better do some cleaning quick. With 28MB of free space on a 90GB drive, you can lose data, can become corrupt, and stand a change of hard drive problems. Use one of these programs to clear all Caches and Logs; Onyx http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html Yasu http://www.jimmitchelldesigns.com/yasu.html

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...

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. ...