I think DiskWarrior simply keeps everything running better on one's computer, especially Emailer. To date I've never had any sort of file issue with Emailer (knock wood!)
I thought I'd relate a recent experience: My Mac had been running just fine, but it also had been at least a week since I'd bothered to run DiskWarrior, so I ran it. Usually, nothing shows up on the generated report, but this time I was shocked to see what was in fact wrong with my "perfectly running" Mac! For those of you who do not have DW, I'm going to copy the report below to show the sort of things which DiskWarrior fixes that one doesn't even realize are wrong...yet! Cheers! Beginning of report (if you're not interested, just skip the following): DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "9600 HFS+." The new directory is ready to replace the original directory. Notes: The original directory is damaged and it was necessary to scavenge the directory to find file and folder data. Some files that had been lost or thrown away may have been recovered. Repaired Directory Structure: All errors in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node links, indexes and more have been repaired. The directory structure holds the directory data for files and folders. These repairs prevent the loss of access to some or all files and folders on the disk and ensure that a disk appears on the desktop. Repaired Flags of these Files: Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Flags are true/false settings that indicate attributes of a file such as whether the file is locked. These repairs ensure proper access to these files. Repaired Alias Flags of these Files: Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Every file has a flag that indicates whether or not it has an alias. These repairs ensure the proper functioning of any aliases to these files. Repaired IDs of these Files: Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Every file has a unique identification number that must be valid. These repairs ensure that applications can locate these files if they are renamed or moved to a new location. Recovered these Files: Name: "Picture 3" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Download Cache" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Xclaim� Video Player" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Read Me" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Maxtor 20-2GB keys" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "PPPremier Timer 2 Preferences" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Clouds.gdx" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Download Cache145645" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "farm-1" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "somerset-farm-1146331" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Backup of farm-1" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Free Space CMRGBMCCKY" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Favorites Temp.html" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Download Cache148788" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Cartman Wookies" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "lost_cat.swf" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "intro.swf" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Recovered files are files that had an entry in an inaccessible portion of the directory. These files may have been lost or thrown away. You must inspect these files to determine the extent of any damage. You must also determine whether these files should be discarded. Repaired Duplicate Names of these Files: Name: "Download Cache145645" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "farm-114331" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Download Cache148788" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Every item within a given folder must have a unique name. These repairs ensure that these files can be used. Repaired Oversized Threads of these Files: Name: "ReadMe 2.8b8" Location: "9600 HFS+:iVisit Folder:" Name: "JamCam7.jpg" Location: "9600 HFS+:My Jams:" Name: "Map1b.jpg" Location: "9600 HFS+:Desktop Folder:Files for:Already TRANSFERRED:Map:" File threads are used as a shortcut for accessing a file. These repairs reclaim wasted space within the directory. Repaired Keys for these Files: Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Keys store the name and location of files and are used to find a file's entry in the directory. These repairs ensure that these files can be used. Repaired Oversized Threads of these Folders: Name: "Palimpsest Servers 1(2)" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Folder threads are used as a shortcut for accessing the items of a folder. These repairs reclaim wasted space within the directory. Repaired Duplicate IDs of these Folders: Name: "tems from9600 HF 2" Location: "9600 HFS+:Desktop Folder:" Every folder has an identification number that must be unique. These repairs ensure that applications can locate these folders if they are renamed or moved to a new location. Repaired Duplicate Names of these Folders: Name: "Cleanup At Startup148774" Location: "9600 HFS+:" Every item within a given folder must have a unique name. These repairs ensure that the contents of these folders can be used. Recreated these Missing Folders: Name: "Geschichte" Location: "9600 HFS+:Desktop Folder:" Name: "Rescued items from9600 HF 1" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Name: "Palimpsest Servers 1(2)" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Name: "Appleispcrashremovals" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Name: "Rescued items from9600 HFS+" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Name: "Rescued items from9600 HF 5" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Name: "Stuffe" Location: "9600 HFS+:Trash:" Name: "Temporary Items" Location: "9600 HFS+:" Name: "Cleanup At Startup14874" Location: "9600 HFS+:" Name: "Data" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Geofile" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:Data:" Name: "Cache" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:Data:" References to these folders were found, but the actual folders were missing or damaged. Recreating these folders allows access to any files and folders within them. Moved Orphaned Files/Folders To Rescued Items Folder: Name: "Untitled" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Data" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Untitled150139" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Orphaned files and folders don't belong to any folder. These repairs makes them accessible. They are now located in the "Rescued Items" folder. Repaired Item Counts of these Folders: Name: "tems from9600 HF 2" Location: "9600 HFS+:Desktop Folder:" Name: "Untitled" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Data" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Name: "Trash" Location: "9600 HFS+:" Name: "Desktop Folder" Location: "9600 HFS+:" Name: "9600 HFS+" Location: "9600 HFS+" Every folder keeps a record of the number of items that it contains. These repairs ensure that all items are present when viewing the contents of these folders. Repaired Keys for these Folders: Name: "Untitled" Location: "9600 HFS+:Rescued Items:" Keys store the name and location of folders and are used to find a folder's entry in the directory. These repairs ensure that these folders and their contents can be used. Repaired the Volume Information: Repaired the total file count. Repaired the total folder count. Repaired the available disk space. Every disk has information that describes its contents. These repairs prevent problems such as wasted disk space and applications not functioning properly. Disk Information: Format: Mac OS Extended Where: Bus 0, SCSI ID 0 (v8.1.2) Driver: ".ASYC00" Block Size: 4 K Files: 14,223 Folders: 1,675 Free Space: 894.72 MB Disk Sectors: 8,466,486 Time: 11/7/02 1:44:52 PM DiskWarrior Version: 2.0 ================ end of DW report ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
