Cocktail

it seems that neither Macjanitor or Cocktail will work when it comes to running the Cron Scripts? ...

Cough-cough, DesktopRebuildX

You are welcome ANYTIME! :) As for Maintaining: The use of utilities and/or Terminal commands in order to repair permissions, run scripts, etc. You can use utilities like Cocktail, Maintain Your Mac, Onyx, MacJanitor, Disk Utility (OS X built-in), DiskWarrior, etc. that you can find here: http://www.macupdate.com/index.php?os=macosx here:...

Having a problem?? rebuilding the desktop file doesn't relate to OS X, as it doesn't use a desktop file (hmm...) But a similar function is performed by deleting the cache files, especially the system cache files, You can download, and run an app that allows you to delete those cache files easily, such as OnyX, or Maintain1, or Cocktail (no longer freeware, however). I...

ing the drive until I get myself a new Mac. I will try your suggestion before my next reboot and see what happens. I've already tried cleaning out my caches with Cocktail without result. ...

Is there any way in OSX to force the speed/duplex mode in an older iMac 333mhz machine? The standard terminal commands do not work, nor does Cocktail. It seems that the old iMac uses a BMAC ethernet chip set, wheras modern Macs use a GMAC chip set. The BMAC must need different commands, but I have not found anyone or any program that can issue them. I need to force the iMAC in...

Is there any way in OSX to force the speed/duplex mode in an older iMac 333mhz machine? The standard terminal commands do not work, nor does Cocktail. It seems that the old iMac uses a BMAC ethernet chip set, wheras modern Macs use a GMAC chip set. The BMAC must need different commands, but I have not found anyone or any program that can issue them. I need to force the iMAC in...

I agree with Snowball and DeltaMac...unmount the drives before you leave. And definitly try one of the apps for maintenance. My favorite is Cocktail. You can find it also on versiontracker.com. The most troubling thing I have seen at work with my clients is messed up permissions. You may find it helpful to run disk repair every once in a while to make sure that you Mac is...

How big is your current hard drive? Do you have another hard drive? Do you have funds for another hard drive? There's not much you can delete to free up disk space in OS X short of deleting applications you have installed and files you have downloaded. You can try cleaning out the system caches with a utility like Cocktail, available from versiontracker.com, however i...

Why search? 2 useful apps were listed in the post. Cocktail, unfortunately is a buy-only app now. OnyX (which is freeware) will do this also.