Cocktail

Get Cocktail and use it to delete the DS_Store files.

Also since this morning Cocktail won't boot. ...

lol :) I'll have to try cocktail :D If not I will reboot once every 15 days at night when I am not at work so it can be fresh when I come in I am pretty happy that my mac (at work) can outlast my windows machine any day of the week :p

I just let cocktail do its pilot. ...

After playing around with the last stable beta-release of VLC-player (0.8.4) on a G5 dual 1,8 under Tiger 10.4.1, I have problems opening iTunes, Jam, Cocktail and some other apps: some open, but won't display their windows. I'm quite experienced, did all the regular troubleshooting, deleting prefs and such, but I cannot put my finger on the problem... Rebuilding the...

How much ram do you have? Are you in Tiger or Panther? Clean your caches (cocktail is very good, so it onyx), repair permissions, etc.

Reboot. Everything speeds up again. Happens when you leave it on for weeks. Also, running the cron scripts helps. Get cocktail, and run the pilot every few days. It automatically repairs permissions, cleans caches, runs cron scripts, and rotates log files. If safari is the slow one, clear your history and empty out the icons folder. Its easy if you set it on read-only, because...

But if I try to clean out the internet cache using cocktail or something, Safari doesnt freeze. I'm cleaning it out using the "clean cache" in the safari menu. ...

I recently installed the new Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard Edition Upgrade and can't get any of the apps to work. They all launch until they hit the splash screen and then they quit out. I'm a pretty savvy Mac user and did all of the usual troubleshooting, dumped caches, ran Cocktail, repaired permissions, etc., etc. I called Adobe tech Support and like every problem you...

Normally, files preceded by a . are hidden files - have you used any applications that allow you to show hidden files? .DS_store files contain information about window position, size and view options... icon, column, list etc... They also store OS X file comments. You can delete them, but they'll just reappear - and every one of your folder windows will return to a...