![]() Visitors to the Tuesday night clinic at the Pi Labs Annex marvel at There are servers running Unix whose uptime is measured in years with no user maintenance at all.Home About Membership Calendar Events Journal Help Community Resources Whimsy Twitter Facebook Disk Warrior 3.0 Review from the Pi Labs Annex Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint ![]() This is a professional operating system that goes back to the mid-1970s. Let us not forget that OS X is certified UNIX 03. MacOS X required no user maintenance at all. Otherwise, MacOS 9 was very stable and required little to no maintenance. If you insisted on have an extension dance of three rows of icons at startup, then you may have had to force them to load in a certain sequence. However, the biggest problem with MacOS 9 was third-party extensions. ![]() People complain to High Heaven about MacOS 9. This is because much less functionality is needed. As part of Disk Utilities, the OS X version of Disk First Aid has much less functionality than the MacOS 9 standalone version. Disk First Aid is now a part of Disk Utilities. Oh by the way, Apple included Disk First Aid with its computers up to MacOS 9. However, most the functions of these tools were unnecessary. Antivirus software was useful for disinfectecting the odd Windows virus or Office macrovirus. TechTools Pro was good for recovering deleted files. It means that Crap Foods has added sugar to the puffed cardboard that was the old version of Puffy Smacks.īeing a Mac veteran long before MacOS X, I am intimately familiar with maintenance tools like Norton, Central Point, Norton Antivirus, and TechTools Pro. When you see "50% tastier" on the box of Puffy Smacks breakfast cereal, it does not mean the Puffy Smacks is 50% tastier than Rice Yummies. They advertise the fixes to their crappy products or the addition of features that were heretofore missing. As a rule of thumb, companies don't advertise the designed-in quality features of their products. You clearly don't understand advertising. Computer problems are generic to poorly designed computer hardware and software.Īnother thing. Computer problems are not generic to computers. I can state without fear of contradiction that what your statement is nonsense. I have also used IBM VS on IBM mainframes. I used MS-DOS, CP/M, and TRS-80 before that. The last time that the utility was used on my Mac was more than 10 years ago when a technician used DiskWarrior to recover files on my old hard drive to transfer them to the replacement hard drive.Ĭlick to expand.I have used Macs since 1989. The vast majority of users should never require DiskWarrior because hard drive damage that loses files is a sign that the hard drive should be replaced. Apple does not provide a defrag utility because it is not needed.ĭiskWarrior is used to recover lost files on a damaged hard drive. Microsoft provides a defrag utility to compensate for the inherently poor design of its file system. It is considered routine maintenance in Windows due to poor design of the Windows file system. Defragging does not recover lost files.ĭefragging in Windows is a routine maintenance procedure, but it should not be. Defragging does not rebuild directories due to damaged media. In my last post, I stated that DiskWarrior is not a routine maintenance tool.
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