Cocktail 4.2 Adds Ability to Delete Corrupted Pref Files

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Maintain announced the immediate availability on Tuesday of Cocktail 4.2. The new version adds ability to search and delete corrupted preference files, adds a searchable database of Mac OS system error codes and more.

In addition, version 4.2 adds a list of commonly used network ports, improves the clear log files procedure, fixes a number of minor bugs discovered in the previous release and contains some interface improvements as well as updated Help files and Automator actions.


Cocktail 4.2

Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X that simplifies the use of some advanced UNIX functions and makes maintenance tasks easy. For example, it can clear caches, check the S.M.A.R.T. status of a drive, rebuild the Launch Services database, enable or disable .DS Store files on network volumes and adjust network TCP/UDP settings just to name a few.

Cocktail 4.2 is a Universal Application and requires Mac OS X Tiger or later. A single user license is priced at US$14.95 and a family license at $29.95.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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