Cocktail

Yeah it isn't the best dock animation, it looks similar to scale in a sense. You can turn it on with Cocktail.

I have a G4 alum. Powerbook 1.25mhz w/ superdrive and 1gig of ram. This morning I opened the PB and awakened it from sleep and shortly after waking the cursor stuck in the bottom left corner and dashboard popped up and I could not get the cursor to move over the desktop to control anything. Dashboard would appear and disappear as i tried to move the cursor w/ the...

Most likely either the Launch Services database or possibly the Whatis database. Cocktail can rebuild both databases and I am sure there are other utilities as well as Unix commands that can do that as well. ...

versiontracker is a website not a utility program the link I gave you leads to Yasu which IMO is easier, friendlier and most of all free compare to cocktail which is a shareware. ...

I have been running cocktail for repairing permissions etc. but the problem seems to be coming back when I least expect it. I hope it's not my TiBook that is getting old or st. ...

YASU MacJanitor TinkerTool Cocktail Maintain System Optimizer X Tiger Cache Cleaner Doktor Cleanor http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21470 Maybe 2 dozen others

there are several utilities such as the shareware app Cocktail or the freeware SymbolicLinker. ...

Thanks folks! Used Cocktail to delete the DS files and I'm back to normal now! ...

Permissions To Repair Permissions, use Disk Utility in your Utility folder. ======================== The .DS_Store files are created by the Finder during its normal course of operation but they are invisible by default. The Finder will automatically put a .DS_Store file into every folder you have opened. These files are used to save the positions of icons, the size of...

Okay - what is repairing permissions? How do I do it, what does it do? And what is Cocktail, what are DS_Store files, and what does deleting them achieve? Cheers folks! Owen