Post by: pendragon on December 06, 2006, 11:32:39 AM
In the past, I have found this tool invaluable. For me, it's a "must have", so I'll not complain (much).
DiskWarrior 4.0
Post by: kimmer on December 06, 2006, 12:47:55 PM
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A bit pricey perhaps, US $58.90 including S&H (just for the upgrade).
Yeah, considering I *just* paid out for 3.0 and the disk hasn't even arrived. If this works on my *mac*, I sure hope the upgrade is FREE.
Post by: Texas Mac Man on December 06, 2006, 05:39:03 PM
I sent Alsoft an email asking why they didn't tell me to wait a few weeks for v4. Also asked if I could exchange. I'll let you know what they reply.
Post by: Texas Mac Man on December 06, 2006, 07:58:41 PM
DiskWarrior 4 goes Universal
By Peter Cohen
Alsoft has released DiskWarrior 4, the latest major release of its hard disk maintenance, repair and recovery software. It’s available for $99.95; upgrades cost $49.95.
DiskWarrior enables you to find missing documents and files; can rebuild hard disk drive directories and salvage files and folders; allows you to compare your disk before and after a recovery is done; and verifies your repaired directory to make sure it’s free of errors.
New in this release of DiskWarrior is Universal binary support for Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. It’s also significantly faster than before, according to Alsoft. DiskWarrior 4 now repairs invalid file permissions, and includes an additional suite of file and folder tests.
DiskWarrior 4 sports myriad other improvements, as well, including the ability to identify corrupted preferences (.plist files), detects and repairs more disk problems than previous versions, repairs and rebuilds FileVault-protected volumes, supports case-sensitive file names, repairs and rebuilds Attribute B-trees, repairs Access Control Lists (ACLs) and more.
Post by: Texas Mac Man on December 06, 2006, 09:09:08 PM
Please fax a copy of your invoice to 1-281-353-9868. Please include your
name, mailing address, serial number and Visa or Mastercard number.
If you purchased it within 30-45 days from today, we will only bill you
shipping and handling of $8.95.
Best wishes,
Customer Service
I will do it. I bought it on 3 Nov.
Post by: kimmer on December 06, 2006, 11:53:14 PM
Post by: kimmer on December 08, 2006, 08:20:46 PM
Color me very happy.
Post by: zampom on December 18, 2006, 05:05:36 PM
Post by: pendragon on December 18, 2006, 05:31:30 PM
With no advance shipping notice, my DW 4.0 arrived 12/11/06 via priority mail (ordered when first announced).
The CD comes in a thin polyurethane case, rather than a paper sleeve.
The CD cover is printed with the owner’s serial number (but not his name).
As before, if one is going to install (drag & drop) DW, Alsoft recommends it be in the Utilities folder.
I have yet to read the documentation, so what constraints, if any, there may be re running DW on a network, I dunno.
II. Technical (on a 24” Intel iMac and on a G4 DP 800, both 10.4.8):
Before installing, I used FileBuddy to find and remove all DW 3.x files, including the invisible ones. What, if any difference this makes, I dunno.
As suggested, I first started up from the DW (install) CD—a very long process.
My first run (on the 24” iMac) revealed 35% of the items were out of order and a few creation dates needed repair. I suspect (guess) that the high number of items out of order had to do with my using Migration Assistant, performing an Archive & Install, and numerous system updaters…
DW then did it’s thang as expected, but much faster.
Subsequent runs revealed no problems.
I have since installed DW on all volumes, including a FW external drive, and DW was able to verify/repair all other volumes, excluding the boot drive of course.
Journaling was not affected, e.g., it remained in its enabled state.
Just how well DW resolves major directory problems, I dunno.
III. Conclusion:
At first glance, it looks like another great product from Alsoft.
FWIW:
I was at my local Apple VAR 12/13/06 talking with one of the service techs. He noted that he had a 12” PB (I don’t know what model) that had a badly corrupted directory and for the last 6 days and nights, DW 3.x had been running in an effort to resurrect the directory. Finally, the tech quit DW 3.x.
DW 4.0 had just arrived, so he gave that a try. Three hours later the customer’s PB was back in service.
As Zapom noted, it is much, much faster.
Post by: jcarter on December 18, 2006, 07:36:35 PM
He said, "No, so dont buy it now, but if you ever need it, just come in and get it."
Is it something that I should be using regularly as preventative maintenance?
Or wait till something goes awry?
Jane
Post by: kbeartx on December 18, 2006, 07:50:26 PM
QUOTE(jcarter @ Dec 18 2006, 07:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Is it something that I should be using regularly as preventative maintenance?
Or wait till something goes awry?
Or wait till something goes awry?
yes
Post by: jcarter on December 19, 2006, 06:49:13 AM
Jane
Post by: AmicusE on December 19, 2006, 11:59:17 AM
All the best/æ
Post by: jcarter on December 19, 2006, 12:04:27 PM
Jane
Post by: csonni on December 19, 2006, 06:27:40 PM