DONMONTALVO  I would love to know in detail what this tool does. Not from a sales or home user perspective, but from an IT perspective. We command line tools to do almost everything, and most of the time we attach the commands to launchd agents or daemons.

If Cocktail can do stuff our users (who never have admin rights) need to do, we would embrace it. Without knowing *exactly* how it does what it does, we avoid/ban it from the environments we support.

Not trying to put down Cocktail. I think it's a great tool. Just trying to see if we can get a little more documentation (mice nuts level) so we can make a proper evaluation of whether this is a tool we might want to provide our 24/7/365 non-admin production environments with.

Happy to work with the developer on producing the documentation, since we can all benefit.

Thanks,

Don

Don Montalvo, TX  
(Version 4.6)

PARVENU51  I just tried updating to version 4.6 on my Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and it would not install no matter what I did. I even tried a clean install by uninstalling the previous version of Cocktail but that had no effect. Each time I had to force quit Cocktail after installing it into my applications folder and then trying to open it up for the first time. I have a 2 GHz Macbook with 4 GB DDR3 memory running Snow Leopard.  
(Version 4.6)

ICONZ113  I've used onyx, sLCC, macpilot and mainmenu, and I've settled on cocktail. They all have there strengths, but cocktail always solves the problem, I don't really use it regularly just for maintenance, I use it when Im having some issue, and it always fixes it. Great application  
(Version 4.5.2)

MACMAN8  I want to thank the developer for not forgetting those of us still using Tiger, and for updating Cocktail for us as well. Your dedication to Mac users, as well as those who cannot use Leopard or Snow Leopard (due to hardware limitations) is greatly appreciated. Thanks for a great product and for including us too. I use Cocktail on a daily basis at shutdown, and my Mac is in great shape thanks to your efforts.  
(Version 4.5.2)

JAKE THE SNAKE  Excellent tool. Works flawlessly under 10.6.1

Thanks for a great product!  
(Version 4.5.1)

MACTECHHEAD  Previously launch problem was fixed as soon as I literally posted about here. 10 out of 5 for support !

Works great with 10.6.1 , no issues and no complaints.

Thanks again for the super speedy fix and for great tool !  
(Version 4.5)

MACTECHHEAD  Is this new version of Cocktail for Snow Leopard only for 64-bit Mac's running 10.6?

I started up from 10.6 and when I tried to launch Cocktail 4.5 I was given an error saying "Cocktail cannot be launched from this Mac because it's not compatible" or something alone those lines.

This would be a shame if the developer is doing this intentionally.   
(Version 4.5)

TEKNOMAN  The new version for Snow Leopard works flawlessly.

Kudo's to the developer for getting right on this update!  
(Version 4.5)

MICG  Ack!

Completely, and I mean completely locked up my Mac G4 like no other

system maintenance utility ever has! Mac Janitor did the same when I tried out a newer release of that!- Ack to that too!

The only good thing is it has an uninstaller.

Cocktail locked up my main account and my Administrator account at the same time! I had to hard shutdown. I tried everything I could figure to avoid a hard shutdown - Quit Finder, Command+option+esc. - nothing would budge.

Socks from MKD has been good though. As with most all these types of utilities everything practically grinds to a stop. It's deceptive as compared to the MacOS9 utilities when everything quit on the desktop except the utility and the Finder told you it would quit everything for you. With Mac OS X everything just kind of turns stagnant. I hate that, but at least when they work they work properly (hopefully)

The only other System utilities I'd recommend are your Mac OS X install disk utilities, DiskWarrior, Drive Genius (booted), AppleJack,

and Socks.

Good luck and knock on wood if you use Cocktail.   
(Version 4.4.1)

MONTY LEE  I've been a Cocktail user for some time, and upgraded when Leopard came out. I've been using it occasionally and had not trouble. About a month ago I setup the Pilot on both my laptop and desktop (ran Friday night). The defaults for the Scheduler were used, which included clear cache, repair permissions, and rotate logs, then reboot. About the same time Apple's 10.5.7 update came out. All I can say is that both computers started having major problems. Microsoft Office 2008 quit running because of permission problems. Several Apple programs (eg. Keynote, Preview) would not allow me to save any file, old or new, because I did not have permissions. No restore from Time Machine worked. A 10.5.7 Combo Update would solve the problem with reinstall of Office. Then it would happen again. After 2 weeks of testing and reinstalls, I had the laptop running fine for a week. I was using it Friday for business without any issues. On Saturday I tried to use the laptop and everything was corrupted again. The only program that ran that night (I forgot to disable it) was Cocktail. The logs show that it was the only program that ran. I ended up doing an Erase and Install of Leopard and then restored my home folder items and re-installed applications EXCEPT COCKTAIL. Needless to say that now for 4 weeks I've had no problems at all. I cannot 100% pinpoint Cocktail as it could have been an interaction Cocktail had with some other program. I do know that the problem occurred on two machines, and always the next day after Cocktail had run. Once Cocktail was removed, no problems have resurfaced. Tech Support from Microsoft, Apple, and Mac Forums have all said that Cocktail is not necessary and can cause problems. I make no claims other than without Cocktail my system is running great!  
(Version 4.4)