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Great app.
I've long felt there are two kinds of Mac users: DiskWarrior evangelists, and people who will eventually become DiskWarrior evangelists. :) Can't count the number of times it's completely saved my bacon.
[Not Necessarily a] Great app
I have mixed feelings about DW, mainly becasue it let me down when I needed *something* to resurrect my suddenly-corrupted HD. After repeated attempts to repair the HD using fsck and Disk Utility, I booted from my DW 3.0.2 CD and began the repair process. About a quarter of the way through, the HD spun down and DW basically quit trying to repair the HD (or do much of anything). After waiting about 20 minutes for something to happen, I rebooted and restarted the repair process with DW. Same roadblock; the HD spun down and DW just sat there. After I got my system back running (had to erase the HD) I wrote Alsoft about this, and they replied that DW would have started back again eventually, if I had waited long enough. How long was I supposed to wait--a week? I haven't used DW since, but I do run fsck every time I start my Mac up (it has caught one problem, which Disk Utility was able to repair).
[Not Necessarily a] Great app
So you didn't give the program the time it needed, and this is the programmer's fault? Sounds like the old tech response of "PBCAK." (Problem between chair and keyboard.)
[Not Necessarily a] Great app
How much time was I supposed to give it? I waited almost a half hour each time I tried to repair the hard drive. What was I supposed to do, let it sit there overnight? The hard drive had spun down, and DW seemed to be making absolutely no progress whatsoever. I did read a report on (I think) VersionTracker that DW could "choke" if overlapping files was the problem (that is the last error message I got from DW before the HD spun down).
[Not Necessarily a] Great app
So, we have this miracluous app the has saved countless hard drives when no other program could... and you're complaining that it doesn't do it in less than a half hour? :-) |
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