[Ti] Onyx deletion of caches causes system hang

[Nathan Chaney]

I haven't had any problems with Cocktail, although I've only used it on an
experimental basis.  I'd like to know why deleting the cache made the system
unstable...

Nathan

On 4/3/04 11:40 AM, "Scott Smith" <scottinma at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 3, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Thomas Hart wrote:
> 
>> I haven't had any problems with Onyx, though I have only used it once.
>> I did use Cocktail this week after seeing it recome=mended in an
>> article and it turned out to be a disaster. After running the suite of
>> scripts I lost my hard drive at the next restart. I managed to boot in
>> 9 from an external drive and eventually managed to find the internal
>> drive. I ended up having to copy, not backup, everything dear to me.
>> Then I had to erase and reinstall on the internal drive.
>> Lesson learned, stick with Tinker Tool and MacJanitor.
> 
> Cocktail is fantastic (and it's free).  I've been using it for over a
> year on a monthly basis to maintain the HD.
> 
> Scott
> 
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