Hi Ronni, I haven't installed it yet. I've put TTP onto a DVD - back up. Then I'm doing a new backup of my HD on the partitioned external drive. Slowly because it's just a little USB drive and takes its time. It took four hours to restore the HD last time.
Then will put TTP on the other partition. Then install TTP on my laptop and set up the protection. Perhaps I should have installed TTP before starting all this, but I had TTP installed when the whole system fell over, who knows why, so I want to have a full backup available before installing it this time. Cheers, Susan. -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:wa...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Monday, 1 June 2009 3:56 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: MacUpdate Bundle - TechTool Pro 5 and Parallels 4 plus more,.. Hi Susan, Yes, as long as you have plenty of free space on the External Drive, it will work. Putting TTP5 on its own partition is best. It would be the same as my TTP4 on little TechTool Protégé, I just boot from him and run TTP. Have you set up TechTool Protection in system Prefs? I have all the TechTool Protection features active (In System Prefs). The SMART Check interval is 1 hour, Directory Backup is 4 hours, Volume Usage checks every 5 mins, E-Mail Alerts "Send Email Alert for Volume Usage warnings" & "Send Email alert for SMART Check failures" are all activated. Cheers, Ronni On 01/06/2009, at 3:48 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: > Ronni, Actually, in reply to my own question, I will partition my > little backup drive, put TechTool Pro 5 on one partition, and a back > up of my HD on the other. There's plenty of room. regards, Susan. > On 01/06/2009, at 3:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Susan, >> >> Micromat recommend that you install the program on a bootable >> external drive if possible. >> When you run the program from the bootable DVD, virtual memory >> cannot be used. >> When the disk directory is replaced, all of it, plus part of Mac OS >> X and TechTool Pro, must be able to be held in RAM. >> Unless you have a lot of RAM, this is not likely to be possible. >> >> Also, after you install TechTool Pro 5.x, open the TechTool >> Protection system preferences pane and configure the features found >> there. >> >> I purchased TTP 5 when it was first released and found it would not >> work on my TechTool Protégé (which I had TTP4 installed on, plus >> Disk Warrior and other Diagnostic Tools). >> Micromat have informed me that there will have to be a new release >> of the Protégé Manager to support TechTool Pro 5.0.x. >> I'm still waiting for them to update Protégé Manager, they do not >> know when the new version of Protégé Manager will be available. >> >> So my little TechTool Protégé sits on my desk waiting ;-( >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 01/06/2009, at 2:58 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: >> >>> good, thanks Ronni >>> >>> On 01/06/2009, at 2:46 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Susan, >>>> >>>> Version 5.0.4 is the latest available. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo >>>> 2.4 GHz / 3GB / 800MHz / 160GB >>>> OS X 10.5.7 >>>> >>>> On 01/06/2009, at 2:41 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Michael, the download version from the email they sent me >>>>> appears to be the latest version 5.0.4. Is that the version you >>>>> have used? cheers, Susan. >>>>> On 01/06/2009, at 11:02 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Susan, >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know whether I downloaded the bundle the most efficient >>>>>> way or not >>>>>> (I subscribed and then down loaded each program individually by >>>>>> clicking on >>>>>> the title in the email I received after subscribing) or whether >>>>>> I ran >>>>>> TechTool correctly (the 700 odd mb took for ever to download on >>>>>> an ADSL2+ >>>>>> subscription) and for some reason it took me a couple of goes >>>>>> to burn a >>>>>> bootable disc so I could optimise the MacBook Pro's hard drive >>>>>> before >>>>>> creating an eDrive on it, but in the end I got there. >>>>>> >>>>>> Note that the version of Techtool that gets downloaded as part >>>>>> of the >>>>>> subscription is not the most recent version and that there is >>>>>> an update >>>>>> available. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Michael Hawkins. >>>>>> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 3GB / 800MHz / 160GB OS X 10.5.7 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
