>Otherwise, I have not found that the Norton suite is buggy. I have found it >stable. I also haven't found that it slows my Macs. Nor have I found it to >destroy a hard drive during a repair. I do make regular backups, of my >drive and of my documents, and I prefer to backup before I run Disk Doctor >and/or Norton Defrag/Optimizer.
I don't know about Norton being "buggy" but it is definitely not "safe." I did have it destroy a hard drive during a repair. As I recall, it was a "keys out of order" error which DiskFirstAid reported but could't fix. I did not have DiskWarrior then and getting Norton was quicker than waiting for DiskWarrior. Norton went merrily about fixing the directory file and about 80% through stopped and reported that it was stumped and couldn't fix the hard drive's directory. I then got DiskWarrior which worked for two days trying to repair the drive after Norton got through with it and in the end could't as it ran out of RAM in which to work. Had I had DW in the first place, or had run it prior to running Norton, DW would have fixed the "keys out of order" error without problem in not more than a couple minutes maximum. Now I only run Norton AFTER I've first run DiskWarrior, and Norton occasions makes some minor repairs. The techs at Alsoft confirmed that the running of Norton was what made DW unable to fix my directory file. Since DiskWarrior generallly takes no more than a couple minutes to run, it would not be an imposition to do it daily, really, especially if one had an automated routine backup procdures set up. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
