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Latest Version
Cocktail 18.6.2 LATEST
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The application serves up a perfect mix of maintenance tools and tweaks, all accessible through a clean and easy to use interface. The app's features are arranged into five categories that helps you manage various aspects of your computer.
It also comes with an automatic Pilot mode that allows you to simply press a button and relax, knowing that Cocktail for macOS will take care of the rest.
Cocktail for Mac is installed at more than 250.000 computers world wide. The largest part being private individuals, but Cock tail can also be found at large international companies, educational institutions or newspapers.
Features and Highlights
- Enable or disable journaling
- Repair disk permissions
- Set disk spindown time
- Prebind and re-prebind entire system or selected folder
- Run cron scripts
- Change startup mode and language
- Modify sleep settings
- Force empty trash
- Rebuild Launch Services database
- Update whatis and locate databases
If you are looking for Cocktail for Mac alternatives, we recommend you to download CCleaner for Mac or CleanMyMac X.
How to Use
Drag the app to the Applications folder
Launch the app and enter admin password
Select a section: Disks, System, Files, etc.
Click “Execute” to run selected maintenance tasks
Use "Scheduler" to automate regular cleanups
Quit the app once tasks are completed
System Requirements
macOS 10.10 Yosemite or later (varies by version)
Intel or Apple Silicon Mac
PROS
- Easy-to-use maintenance interface
- Automates macOS cleanup tasks
- Supports deep system optimization
- Offers repair and rebuild tools
- Lightweight and fast performance
- Not free, trial is limited
- No real-time system monitoring
- Basic UI design feels outdated
- Requires caution for advanced tools
- Limited support for latest macOS betas
What's new in this version:
- Clearing of the user caches no longer fails if iCloud synchronization is performed at the same time
- Fixed few compatibility issues with Parallels Desktop
- This version detects additional situations in the operating environment that can cause communication with system services to fail
- Added a workaround for an issue which could cause sandbox-protected applications to revert their preferences after clearing of the applications caches
- Addresses a number of issues with Microsoft Teams
- Resolves a rare problem with fonts in Affinity Designer if Cocktail has been used to clear font caches
- Cocktail is no longer reporting a launch agent or daemon as corrupt if it's not able to verify it due to the permission issues
- Fixed a bug which made it possible to run Cocktail (Sequoia Edition) on upcoming macOS Tahoe 26
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