[MacDV] Toast/copying DVD-R

[James Asherman]

On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 02:06  PM, Dorothy Hennings wrote:

> Jim,
> Please explain what Cocktail does and how and when to use it. I looked 
> at the read me and don't understand what it does.
> George
>

Ok, I don't understand all of the Unix stuff that is going on so I use 
a simple tool like MAcJAnitor or Cocktail.
It can clean up the cache of web stuff that accumulates, (significant) 
and clean out the virtual memory swap files on your Harddrive and it 
also trims down a bunch of logs that you don't read and runs some 
maintenance routines . Lot's of this stuff goes on automagically  
(middle of the night)  if you leave your machine on all the time but I 
don't and I don't think these things kick in in sleep.
MacJanitor is probably the easiest such program to use.
Cocktail suits me.
Onyx appears to try to do too much..
There are others.
I know ... you can do all these things in a terminal window. Some you 
don't need to do at all.
I would be careful about screwing around with : Journaling, Prebinding, 
and erasing too much stuff.

J