[Harvey]

Lately, I feel my year old iMac is slowing down and Safari is crashing mysteriously. I would like to buy some type of utility software (similar to Norton's in my OS8.6 / 9 days) that would correct some of these real or imagined problems. Can I get some opinions on Techtools2, Norton's (if available for OSX), DiskWarrior, or any other utility that you've used and liked. Thanking you in advance for your comments.
Harv

[-Q-]

Do a search in the software forum. You'll see a lot of positive things said about DiskWarrior.

[Detrius]

Originally posted by -Q-:
Do a search in the software forum. You'll see a lot of positive things said about DiskWarrior.

But DiskWarrior is virtually useless for hardware--despite what other people claim. DiskWarrior 3 for directory structure repairs; TTP4 for hard drive hardware checks; Norton Speed Disk for Defrag.

Take this from the guy that does it all day, every day.

[Randman]

Someone who "does this all day" should know better then to use any Norton product on OSX


To be honest, getting more ram solves a myriad of problems. Using Disk Utility to repair permissions also helps, imo. And there's cron job apps such as Cocktail or MacJanitor to do little things.
DiskWarrior is very good in an emergency situation.

[alphasubzero949]

TechTool Pro for hardware diagnostics. I haven't had issues with defrag/optimizing it, except for one meltdown of my volume structure (probably bad to begin with...no issues since reformatting earlier in the year).

DiskWarrior for directory maintenance.

Cocktail for system-level maintenance (cron, permissions, prebinding).

Never bother with Norton.

[Madrag]

I use cocktail for the cron + cache clean once a week
disk utility to repair permissions once a week
full backup into an external FW HD every fortnight
disk warrior to defrag every partition once a month

my G4 400 with 10.3.4 is smooth as silk