As I have learnt today, Cocktail is a Mac application that does all sorts of maintenance activities. It is not free, it costs $19 It can be found at www.maintain.se
Best wishes Simon. On 30 Oct 2011, at 18:03, Johnny Angel! wrote: > Hi, > > What is cocktail and where do I find it in lion? > On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> You may want to run a permissions repair, which can be accessed via Disk >> Utility. I had a similar problem and I actually ran Cocktail, which does a >> number of maintenance tasks and this did correct the problem. >> On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Johnny Angel! wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Been away from the list for a bit and trying to catch up on my mail. I >>> haven't seen anything thus far on the list about the Lion update I got when >>> I checked my software updates. It was a 47 minute, 900 meg update that >>> kept me up past my beauty sleep start time. <grin> Then, after getting >>> back into mail today, I am unhappy to see that my mail messages behavior is >>> changed. Before the update, and since I installed Lion, When I opened a >>> message, VO would automatically start reading the message for me. No >>> longer. After Lion says the word group, which I never heard it say before >>> after opening up a message, VO goes silent and I am left at the top of the >>> body of the email message. Has anyone else downloaded the Lion update? >>> Does everything still work as expected like before the update? Now I know >>> that some of you power users out there are scratching your eggheads, >>> shaking them and saying: Johnny me lad, this is no biggy. But please >>> understand that the only power this four month old baby MacBook Pro user >>> demonstrates is pushin the old power button to turn Mac on! <smiley> >>> Anyway, I would like to get things back to my expected normalness. Now, I >>> had originally set up Lion mail to be in simple, non thread mode where, >>> status, number, sender, subject and date sent were the only things I would >>> hear when left and right VO arrowing on a closed message. This seems to be >>> the same. >>> Oh and another funny thing too: >>> It seems that at least once in a while, two finger swiping down on the >>> trackpad hadn't work either. I saw a couple of messages on repair >>> permissions, so I took the wise advice and did just that. But after >>> getting back into mail, nothing was changed. >>> Well I said all that to ask two questions: >>> 1. How can I tell what mode my Lion mail program is in? >>> 2. Any other ideas on what may have happened to my nice mail reading >>> capabilities and how I may go about fixing it? >>> Incidentally, quick nav is off like usual. >>> Johnny Angel! >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > Johnny Angel! > [email protected] > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
