I couldn't tell you if anything really does anything that it says it does. All we have is their word to go on. LOL I do defrag a drive and get considerably better performance, but only after I have experienced slow finder performance or the ability to search for items and whatnot then run defrag and see that a large amount of the files are deframented files. It really is hard to say if it was the restart, Disk First aid, HD driver update, directory damage or what that was causing the problem in the first place. Being a System admin myself I have a routine that I perform when most people generally start telling me of problems, that I can't cure with basic troubleshooting. I will set at their machines for about an hour or so and run all of my utilities.
1. Disk first Aid - I always run repair and never verify 2. Drive Setup - update the drivers to the HD 3. Then if in OS 9 I trash the finder preferences (Doesn't apply to OS X ) 3. Reboot onto Norton and run Diag. Always saving an undo to their scratch partition or a networked drive. 4. Check for defragmention, but I don't do that too frequently because it takes them down for too long (Graphic Designers ya know). I will normally set it for overnight if I have too. 5. Then I pop in Disk Warrior and analyze the file structure, then usually run the rebuild. I repeat with other utilities if I think that Norton is not picking up anything - Drive X and or Tech Tools Pro 3 (Apple Care CD.) I also built a boot disk that has Norton, Mac Test Pro, Disk First Aid, Drive Set up and Tech Tools all installed. It takes a bit to boot but works like a charm and keeps me from having to reboot so many times and swapping cd's. This makes it much much much more easy and convenient. I have ran optimizations on the drive using different utilities and compared the pre-screening (I like to call it pre-screening) and I usually do not see too much difference between utilities when it comes to defragmentation visualization. You might experiment with several ones and see which you like the best. I can say that I have actually lost a Drive after repairing it with Norton and Drive X not saving an undo so please remember to do that when applicable. I think that Drive X might have better tools for diagnosing Unix file structures then other. But Norton 7.0 does brag to be OS X compatible. Your decision. Good Luck Matthew Elliott > hello and a question > > Are Tech Tool Pro 3 and Norton actually compatible and do truly defrag > and optimize an X installation? > > Is there published literature on this, backing this up? > > And how do you tell if they really defrag and optimize ? > > BTW. I have successfully run Disk Warrior on an X installation without > "crashing". But of course, the same above questions would apply > > albert > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:g-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:g-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
