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i've heard that disk utilities aren't as "required" as they were in  os 9.
are disk "utilities" necessary-- outside osX's "disk utility"?  are norton
or diskwarrior necessary after the move from os 9?
tv

Diskwarrior 100% YES. There is nothing like diskwarrior to keep your 
filesystem running smooth. It's good to run every other month or so. 
Norton is only useful for repairing files. It's not reliable for other 
repairs and apple does not advise running speed disk. It could actually 
make your computer slower.

...Alex

On Mar 20, 2004, at 9:33 PM, tony vincent wrote:

> i've heard that disk utilities aren't as "required" as they were in  
> os 9.
>  are disk "utilities" necessary-- outside osX's "disk utility"?  are 
> norton
>  or diskwarrior necessary after the move from os 9?
>  tv

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At 9:41 Uhr -0500 24.03.2004, xtreammusic wrote:
>It's not reliable for other repairs and apple does not advise 
>running speed disk. It could actually
>make your computer slower.

Well, I can only speak from experience and my OS X machine gets a 
speed boost after every defrag. I do it every two weeks and it works 
like a charm. And boom, faster working. Where is all this slowing 
down stuff coming from? Did someone actually try doing it and found 
it to be slower? Am I not paying attention to my system that I use 
about 15 hours a day? Do I not know what it actually feels like for 
the tasks I'm performing.. well... everyone judge for themselves, but 
don't say things in a way where they sound like a fact. If it's your 
experience that it's slower say so, because my experience is 
certainly the opposite.

Cheers
Hans