At 3:02 PM -0400 10/29/04, jgold wrote: >This thread makes me recall one truly awful Friday afternoon, when I ran >Norton Utilities (version 4.0) on my Max 3000 to fix some odd little >problems. The program ran its course, found some problems and "fixed >them." > >When I attempted to restart off the hard drive, however, I got the >question mark. When I rebooted off the Norton Disk again, I discovered, >to my horror, that Norton had taken every file on the drive and inserted >them into a series of numbered folders -- apparently at random. > >I never did find out what happened, and to this day I view Norton with >great wariness. I'm thinking that Disk Warrior is my next purchase. > >Anyway -- sorry for rambling, but I thought this might be of interest. >And if anyone knows what happened, I'd be very interested to know.
Hi John, Norton Systemworks did a number on me one day too! Something about file duplicates or needing indexing or something that seemed suspicious cause there were so many of them, but I stupidly clicked "fix em". Next thing I knew it had scrambled the email in my Eudora Inbox and I had to trash about 20 of them. Norton was great in 7.6, but TechTool Pro 3 caught up to and passed Norton. Maybe Norton lost it when they turned their focus more to Windows? If I were you I'd pick up TechTool Pro 3.x even before Disk Warrior, but obviously (as in my case) Disk Warrior too. Terry -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
