diskwarrior - what a pleasure

[cyberone]

just want to share some enthusiasm about diskwarrior.

formerly, with windows, i couldnt live without norton utilities.

as there are no more norton utilities for macs, well, i tried diskwarrior.

as a kind of insurance policy. nothing more important than a smoothly running OS.

even though mac OS has no registry and all of that: diskwarrior in a first run found quite some open holes in my directory.

and provides an excellent defragmentation.

well, and did I mention that i like diskwarrior?

[grapes911]

I'm glad you are happy, but I'll give you a negative story about it. The defrag utility increased my boot time. I did it again, to see if it would fix it and it almost doubled my boot time. I really contemplated reinstalling after using that hideous app.

[mad jew]

Interesting. Would you consider yourself a regular user or a power user or something quite different? I'd argue that DiskWarrior is unnecessary for the average Mac user. :)

[cyberone]

Interesting. Would you consider yourself a regular user or a power user or something quite different? I'd argue that DiskWarrior is unnecessary for the average Mac user. :)

dont know. am using the computer 12 hrs a day, for word processing and photo editing mainly.

gives me peace of mind to know that the intestines of the machine are working properly.

[cyberone]

I'm glad you are happy, but I'll give you a negative story about it. The defrag utility increased my boot time. I did it again, to see if it would fix it and it almost doubled my boot time. I really contemplated reinstalling after using that hideous app.

@ startup: how many times does that wheel turn before the mac ox screen shows up?

just to get an idea about your start up time.

[WinterMute]

Diskwarrior is an app that you don't really need till you really need if you see what I mean.

It's saved my arse on one occasion when my PowerBook dumped most of it's directories and DW rebuilt them, and I do run it over the machine once a month now, no signs of increased booting times.

A good app I think.

[radiantm3]

I've heard enough disk warrior horror stories to not use it unless I absolutely need it as WinterMute put it.

[grapes911]

@ startup: how many times does that wheel turn before the mac ox screen shows up?

just to get an idea about your start up time.
I couldn't tell you. I did use a stop watch to measure the effects on my computer. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it definately almost doubled my boot time.


Diskwarrior is an app that you don't really need till you really need if you see what I mean. I guess I can believe that. Sort of like perscription drugs. They can really help the people who need it, but they can really screw up those who don't.

[YS2003]

I am trying to figure out how to use Disk Warrior CD to run a diagnostic/directory rebuildling on my Macs running Tiger 10.4.3. I have the original DW 3.0 CD and I burned a updated CD with Alsoft's update for DW 3.03. So, I have DW 3.03 CD.

When I put this CD in the optical drive of Mac and reboot it with pressing C, I get the kernel panic and Mac asks me to reboot again by pressing the power button.

Can some give me some advice on how to use DW?

I have an external Lacie HD and I copied DW 3.03 to that drive. But, when I double clicked on DW icon on the external HD, I get an error message(something about invalid path).