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July 8th, 2002, 09:18 PM
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 Norton Utilities upped to version 7.0.1, includes Speed Disk native for Mac OS X!
Just a note to say that after using LiveUpdate to update Norton Utilities to version 7.0.1, I saw that Speed Disk has been installed, which is now native on Mac OS X. Yay Symantec! I know a lot of you are dubious about Norton Utilities, but so far, I have had no problems with either Norton AntiVirus 8.0.1 or Norton Utilities 7.0 (now 7.0.1). I don't think I would buy Drive 10, and DiskWarrior isn't Mac OS X compatible, so Norton Utilities is it for now. Just thought I'd let anyone interested know about this.
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July 8th, 2002, 10:53 PM
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Well, I think I'll only use it on my "experimental" partition for now...  I am one of the many people who got bit by NU 7. I ran the file check portion of Disk Doctor on my primary OS X partition once, and it erased all my system settings and bounced me right back to the registration process. 
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July 8th, 2002, 11:23 PM
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Hmmm... back up all your preference files before running NU. An extra caution. 
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July 9th, 2002, 03:11 AM
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Hmm.. Speed disk for X is really attractive.. But do not use Disk Doctor on X anyway. It used to mess up your mac.. like authorities of files. Whenever you wanna fix your disk problem, Open Terminal and type " sudo shutdown now " (without "'s) then mac will take you to command line of bottom system. and then type "fsck -y" Then your disk will be checking just like Disk Utility from Apple. After fixing disk problems, just type "reboot". Mac will be restart. Very simple and easy. I don't think Nu really fix disk problem. |
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July 9th, 2002, 08:33 AM
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| Skeptical...
I'm really skeptical of if NUM for OS X does anything (good) at all. Most of the reports I've read said that defragging is unceccessary under OS X, due to the way the UNIX core operates. Not being a UNIX guy, I'm not sure if this is true or not. I do know that whenever I used NUM7 under OS X, it did create more problems than it solved. I've used Drive10 for a few issues, and it's seemed to work OK. However, the tool that's worked the best for me is the easy and free "fsck -y" from Single User Mode. It's fixed 90% of my disk troubles.
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July 9th, 2002, 11:04 PM
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Disk fragmentation is not an issue on UFS disks. On HFS+ disks, it can be. I have to give Norton a tentative okay for Speed Disk X, on the basis of one use. I let it defrag my secondary OS X partition, and it seems just a whisker snappier now. Also, I ran fsck -y when booting up in the newly-defragged partition, and that went faster than I have ever seen. I don't know if that is significant, but it was fun to watch. 
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July 18th, 2002, 03:06 PM
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 Oh yeah!!!
All these updates coming left-right-and centre. I just updated to 7.0.1 to find that the speed disk button isn't greyed out anymore, what a relief. Now Peter has restored my faith in SystemWorks
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