On 1/22/04 1:22 PM, gianfranco wrote:
My question to the list now is (perhaps I should have changed the
subject?):
(Changed it for you/us)...
I've read many bad accounts about Norton Utilities, is it really that bad?
I have used regularly the antivirus and defrag on my powerbook for over a
year now and occasionally the doctor and this is really the first time it
messes up (it was Utilities 6.0.3 for OS 9) and it messed up a freshely
set-up partition with no fancy installs on it (FileSaver started already
to report problems even before I could switch it off as I do usually right
after a fresh install). I'd like to hear some opinions and what are the
possible alternative for disc maintenance and repair?
Part of the difference is that DiskWarrior repairs the directory entries
and creates a new directory in a new location. Norton works (IIRC)
directly on the directory (so if it crashes in mid-corrections, you're
out of luck, for example).
My problem with Norton was it would repeatedly find problems, and also
Filesaver kept giving me conflicts with other extensions under MacOS 9.x.
I believe others have reported on this list problems with having
'repaired' a drive, but DiskWarrior still finds problems.
Others can chime in who have direct experience (rather than my
secondhand) with Disk Doctor and other Norton Utilities programs.
Jim Rohde
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