The 2 single best things you can do are: 1. Uwe_r seems to be a lone voice of reason in this regard on this forum, and, certainly in my mind, he's one of the most helpful and technically competent people on here. I'm not going to claim that I know everything about the Mac, but my day job is with a large UNIX vendor, working primarily fixing OS and kernel issues, so I guess you could say I know UNIX pretty well. I'm aware I probably come across as pompous and rude, but the truth of the matter is that most of this myth is being propogated by people who don't actually understand how stuff works. There's a lot of myth flying around about doing things like running Cocktail or other clean up scripts, repairing disk permissions, etc. If you suddenly find that things are 'clogging up', then consider running Cocktail etc. (and I know others will shout me down) That you leave your Mac to do its stuff. I'm assuming from the various questions you've posted that you're a Windows convert. 10.4 changed all that and runs them via launchd - if their slot is missed, launchd runs them when appropriate. Prebind/re-prebind the entire system or selected folder - Why? Run cron scripts - err? Doesn't cron run the cron scripts for you, at a specified time?Ĭhange startup mode - no idea what this is, might be useful Modify sleep settings for portable computers - fair enough Force empty trash -? Rebuild Launch Services database - why? Update whatis and locate databases - why? I can't be bothered to go on, but really, all this stuff is either a) pointless or b) done by MacOS anyway 10.2/10.3 had this peculiarity that the tidy up scripts were run via cron - if the machine was asleep when they were due to run, they just didn't run. Ok, this might make you marginal power savings. You can do this with Disk Utility Set disk spindown time. I'm not going to rant about how pointless this is. If someone us using Cocktail to do it, then my guess is that they don't understand what journaling is or does. Let's look at what Cocktail (and other apps) does: Enable or disable journaling Repair disk permissions Set disk spindown time Why would you want to disable journaling? Python ioc editor for mac. I know, I know, lots of people say it's great and you should use it and Mac OS doesn't look after itself. Leicaman wrote: One our August listmembers metioned Cocktail as an option for a MacPro utility suite. Actually, I'm looking for a system utility software to take care of my new Mac. Hi everybody! Well, I'm new in the Apple forum and I'm going to receive my first Apple Notebook, that's the new MacBook Air 13. What Is Cocktail For Mac? The Cocktail for Mac utility was designed as a multi-purpose tool that helps you clean and repair your Mac for optimized performance. This Cocktail for Mac review goes through the features, installation, how it compares to MacKeeper, and what the users are saying about this product.
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