Kelly-Norton Utilities and OSX question

[Gary S]

Kelly,

I installed Norton Speed Disk and updated it to version 6.0.3 on my
9.2.2 HDD. I downloaded the SPEED DISK FOR OS X profile you suggested.

In reading how to use it I got confused because it says I must have Systemworks 7.0.1 installed on my HDD. I have only Norton Utilities 6.0.3 installed.

How do I use the profile?

Here's what the directions on Symantics web site says:

SPEED DISK FOR OS X:

Note: Before following these steps, you must have Norton Utilities 7.0.1 or later installed.

1. Boot from the Norton Utilities or Norton SystemWorks CD.

Note: To boot from the CD, restart the computer and hold down the C key, while the computer starts up.


2. Double-click Norton Utilities or Norton SystemWorks.
3. Click Speed Disk.
4. Click OK after reading and following the recommendation.
5. Click the Mac OS X hard disk.
6. Click the Options menu, Optimize For, and then click Add Profiles...
7. Double-click the Mac OS X hard disk in the Choose a Folder window.
8. Double-click Library, Application Support, Norton Solutions Support, and then Norton Utilities.
9. Click Speed Disk Profiles, and then click Choose.
10. Click the Options menu, Optimize For, and then click the profile that you want to use.

Note: This is specific for Mac OS X, such as OS 9/X for disks with both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X installed, or OS X for disks with Mac OS X only.


11. Click Optimize.

[kelly]

Hmm. I think ignore 90% of that Gary.

Try just launching SpeedDisk 6.0.3 from your 9.x partition.

Click Add Profile and point it to your Download.

I'm in Jaguar right now so just guessing.

[Bill]

Gary.
I posted this image pix before about a bootable CD with an OS9 system.

I've also mentioned about having the utilities installed on a partition. My Apps partition.

Having said that. Guess what I've been doing for the last few hours.
Figured I'd better check how the partitions are doing on both drives.
So I booted into my apps partition (has a 9 OS in there) did the old check.
All but one partition were past my tolerance level.
So I went to town on them all from my apps partition.
Except for the apps partition of course.
Ran DW3. Checked again with TTP. Ran Speed Disk.
Afterwards rechecked.
Here are a couple of screenshots [what screenshots <gr>] afterwards with speed Disk on the two Jag partitions.
This Jag is on one drive.
This is my Spare Jag on the other drive.

Kelly's right on running it from 9 if you installed the utilities (norton I guess) on that drive .. partition .. whatever.
I just have all that kind of stuff <- hate those tech terms - in my apps partition.

*edited by me*

[Gary S]

I ran Speed disk with that profile. i just draged and dropped it into the existing profiles on Norton's SD and it worked. Then I ran DW 3 and I definitely see a difference. Speed disk 6.0.3 does a very nice job on OS 10.2.6.

When it was done, i spent an hour looking at the files and seeing how it defraged and optimized it. It seems like it really did optimize it as opposed to just defragging it. All the System files are together all the Apps are together
and extentions and all the rest of the files, the tan ones are all together. Who ever drew up that profile knew what they were doing.

I was suprised at how small the Desktop DB file is considering i have over 10 gigs on that 60 gig IBM DeathStar!

Bill,
It looks like you hardly have anything on those drives!  

Thanks guys!

[Bill]

"Bill,
It looks like you hardly have anything on those drives!"

Yep.

[sunset]

Kelly or Gary or  I've just been all over the Symantec site and was unable to find any reference or Search response to "Speed Disk for OS X" profile.  Checked the complete site list as well as all the Mac info I could find and there was nothing, nada, zilch.  

Would someone be kind enough to post a link to the page where that can be found, please.  It's completely eluding me and I don't like being 'eluded at'!!  [whatever that means]??       TIA...

[Bill]

Kelly posted 'where' on another thread sunset.
http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html#Anchor-32647
Look for speed disk.

[sunset]

Thanks a ton, Bill; guess I missed it.    --will get on it  right away!!

Laurel

[Gary S]

Sunset,

D/L the profile and then open up the Speed disk profiles in the the profiles folder. Double click the standard profiles and double click the OSX profile then drag and drop the X profile into the standard profile and you'll be good to go.
You have to be booted ito OS9 to do this. Maybe classic will work?

[Bill]

Your welcome sunset.

Although I don't use that 'profiler' from the link. See my post above.
Fine without it.Perhaps it does something I don't know about. Whatever.

[Gary S]

Bill,
what that profile does is put all the files in one contiguous space instead of putting stuff at the bottom and top of the HDD, like Speed Disk does for if you choose the "General use" profile.

I think it follows the method used in speed disk 3.1, a long time ago, with some tweeks.  

Bill,
i think the reason it looked like you had very little on your HDD was because it was showing the picture of the CD.
 

[Bill]

"what that profile does is put all the files in one contiguous space instead of putting stuff at the bottom and top of the HDD, like Speed Disk does for if you choose the "General use" profile."  
Those pictures were taken after running in the "General use" mode Gary without that 'profiler'.

"i think the reason it looked like you had very little on your HDD was because it was showing the picture of the CD."
What CD? Unless you're talking about the first pic.
They showed very little is because - " ... put all the files in one contiguous space instead of putting stuff at the bottom and top of the HDD".
Does just fine without that profile. So why rock the boat. <gr>