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Which disk utility for OS X 10.2?
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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What are you using for disk repair and defraging in OS X 10.2?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Capital city of the Empire State.
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Alsoft's DiskWarrior and PlusOptimizer, along with OS X's Disk Utility. Booting up from the DW CD means you are running in OS 9.2, but the utilities can handle OS X just fine.
MicroMat's TechTool Pro (recent versions) and OS X-native Drive 10 1.1.2 can also do OS X repairs and defragging.
Norton Utilities 7 is still very buggy, gives bogus error reports, and has damaged or destroyed some users' disks.
The big factor that keeps me using Alsoft's utilities is that defragging with PO is safe even if you have power fluctuations or blackouts while defragging.
If this happens with any other defragger, you will have major disk damage.
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15" w/ Mac OS 10.8.2, iPhone 4S & iPad 4th-gen. w/ iOS 6.1.2
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Somewhere, but not here.
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According to Alsoft, the X-native version of Diskwarrior should be available in 6-8 weeks or so.....I have my credit card ready......
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2001
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I have an OS 9.2.2 boot disk which contains (among other things) DiskWarrior 2.1 and Speed Disk 6, which I run once a month.
Speed Disk 6 is, IMHO, the best defragger you can get, but the rest of Norton Utilities is horrible. Also IMHO, Micromat should be put out of its misery. TechTool Pro and Drive 10 are useless and overpriced.
Until someone comes out with a utility that checks for directory damage and defrags in the background (impossible?), I can't see upgrading, despite how totally excellent DiskWarrior is.
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"Think Different. Like The Rest Of Us."
iBook G4/1.2GHz | 1.25GB | 60GB | Mac OS X 10.4.2
Athlon XP 2500+/1.83GHz | 1GB PC3200 | 120GB | Windows XP
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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I've used DiskWarrior and PlusOptimizer with good success in 10.2. I just boot via the version of 9.2.2 on the DiskWarrior CD (I've completely dumped OS 9 from my machine). I defragged last night, in fact, and all went well.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Tamarac, FL. USA
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I use, along with the Apple Disk Utility, Drive 10 V 1.1.2 which has been released for Mac OSX 10.1.2. It does a good job of Optimization in addition to checking and repairing drives. 
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2007 iMac 24" 2.4 Core2Duo (currently 1Gig Ram), 4 FW400 hd's, 1 FW 800 HD, Brother MFC420N,, Liteon DVD-RW, Epson R320.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Tamarac, FL. USA
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Sorry, I meant Mac OSX 10.2.1, not 10.1.2. 
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2007 iMac 24" 2.4 Core2Duo (currently 1Gig Ram), 4 FW400 hd's, 1 FW 800 HD, Brother MFC420N,, Liteon DVD-RW, Epson R320.
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