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