Cocktail Repair

Onyx is a free ware and Cocktail is an inexpensive shareware. Both work well to clean things up. Note that if you repair permissions on 10.5.5 it . . . will . . . take . . . a . . . long . . . tiiiiimmmmmeeeee. . . . ...

Trying to erase a directory that won't go away is is a common problem which I can usually solve, but this time I'm stuck. I have an empty dir that won't delete. I've tried the following: restarting repair permissions trashing the .DS_Store file option-emtpy trash sudo rm -rf, rm -fdr and rmdir -R

as shareware and use those. Both will not only repair permissions, they will do a lot of others things to keep your Mac happy. ...

In the future you may wish to invest in a repair program or use Disk Utility on the start up disks you got with the computer. ...

scotlovesmacs. The 'secure empty trash' or Cocktail won't work here, I'm afraid. The problem here is that the file is not in the Mac Trash bin but in the XP Reycling bin. ...

in that wouldn't delete upon emptying trash, both secure and otherwise. I did all the stuff posted here such as repair permissions, etc. ...

party system utilities. CarbonCopyCloner will ask for authorization and then hang while "searching for disk permissions" until I force quit. Other programs like cocktail do the same thing. ...

I cannot repair my permissions. I tried from Disk Utility, Cocktail, Xupport and login in as root. Still it won't correct the permissions. I can change them manually only? ...

Disk Utility and run repair permissions. ...

I have recently upgraded my hard drive. I cloned the old one with the latest Carbon Copy Cloner. Before cloning I run disk repair and permissions repair with Disk Utility. No problem anywhere. ...