Re: For OS 10.4, do I need to have a 3rd party application do HD maintenance?

Rowbotth <rowbotth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Way back, I used to use Norton to do hard drive maintenance - it seemed
> to help to have them do a defragment. Then I learned that Norton had
> lost its ability to be useful, so I went to TechTool Pro.
>
> Recently, I almost lost all doing this. I paid my Mac dealer about
> $120, and they managed to recover all. But they mentioned that the
> newer OS has this defragmentation built into it, and I sort of think
> they might be right. (I used to know when it was time to do a
> maintenance when my Palm would refuse to talk to the Mac resident mother
> program... recently I've seen that when this happens, shutting down and
> then restarting seems to fix this problem.)
>
> The Mac service guy also pointed out that there was a newer TT Pro out,
> and I am thinking about buying it. (I did check when I got 10.4, but
> the newer TT/P came out a while later.)

No hard drive maintenance program is a substitute for backup, which you
apparently didn't have when Norton scrambled your disk. Your first data
maintenance dollars should go toward some kind of backup scheme. After
that, DiskWarrior is the best third-party volume repair application.

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