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Cocktail

Cocktail - 4.4

(Leopard Edition) general purpose system modify/repair utility.

All Time: (3.6)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 4.4
Release Date: 2009-07-01
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 2,044
Downloads (all versions): 101,170
Price: $14.95

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Product Description:

Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers.

The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail's major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

What's new in this version:

  • Added ability to reset home directory permissions and ACLs. (Disks - Permissions)
  • Added "Enable unsupported network volumes" setting. (System - Time Machine)
  • Added "Disable backup of system files" setting. (System - Time Machine)
  • Added "Do not backup when disks are mounted" setting. (System - Time Machine)
  • Added "Do not ask to use newly connected disks" setting. (System - Time Machine)
  • Added "Animate background" setting. (System - Time Machine)
  • Added ability to set Time Machine's backup interval. (System - Time Machine)
  • Added support for more network interfaces. (Network - Optimization)
  • Added support for Safari 4.
  • Added "Disable webpage previews" setting. (Interface - Safari)
  • Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
  • Updated Automator actions.
  • Updated help files.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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Cocktail Troubleshooting ReportUPDATE TO MY UPDATE - Version: 4.4, 7/1/2009 07:20AM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

Nedley
Downloaded the latest version on an Intel machine with the same results. Had to uncheck weekly scripts in order for it to work. Just hangs and when I do a force quit, it says app not responding. then when I uncheck weekly, all works well.
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Cocktail CommentaryUPDATE - Version: 4.3.4, 6/4/2009 01:36PM PST

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Nedley
I'm using Pilot. and after I deselected "WEEKLY SCRIPTS" all went well. and don't know if I'm the only user with this problem..
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Cocktail CommentaryDoesn't work - Version: 4.3.4, 6/3/2009 08:13AM PST

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Nedley
Just did the download on a PPC and after selecting the pilot, app hangs,running weekly script and doesn't respond. This is the 1st time I've had an issue.
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