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Tech Tool Pro 4.6.1 dilemma - can not use & no upgrade

Mar 22, 2008 2:50AM PDT

for most long time owners/users. Using Macs for quite some time, I have always relied heavily on Tech Tool Pro & Diskwarrior as essential utilities.

We are now waiting for Tech Tool Pro 5 release. In the meantime 4.6.1 is useless in Leopard. When trying to use it runs halfway into volume structures then freezes absolutely. In good faith I bought version 4 last summer. That was the latest issue but they are only offering an upgrade price for sales within a recent short period of time. How damnably arrogant. All loyal users with 4.6.1 should have an upgrade path, not have to pay full price !

Because of the dilemma & I have always had to use utilities frequently to deal with "natural?" deterioration of normal use. I am certainly no power user. Some them have said they never have had to use those utilties except on rare occasion..

In my concern, I purchased Prosoft Drive Genius 2. It is Leopard current/compliant so I ran its procedures including defrag. That took a time & after exhausting all its uses I used my latest Alsoft Diskwarrior to check. The Diskwarrior is not yet Leopard compliant & its standards claimed inconsistencies with the condition Drive Genius 2 put things in.

Anyone had experience with Drive Genius to have opinions on it as well as the status of Tech Tool & Diskwarrior?

Pretty please with sugar & spice...

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Disk Warrior
Mar 22, 2008 4:33AM PDT

has a free upgrade to 4.1, which is Leopard compliant.

MicroMat claim that 4.6.1 is fully Leopard compliant.

I have not used Drive Genius 2, but it does seem that when you pit utilities of this type against each other, they always seem to be at odds with each other.
A rebuilt directory, I would always use DW for this, when scanned with TTP would always "need" rebuilding. And Vice Versa

Hopefully a Drive Genius user will come along shortly

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Thanks, however, my Tech Tool Pro 4.6.1 has begun, under
Mar 22, 2008 11:01AM PDT

Leopard only to run half way into Volume Structures & freeze. Perhaps I should try an uninstall & reinstall.

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(NT) or call Alsoft Tech Support
Mar 22, 2008 11:22PM PDT
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Will do. Will contact Alsoft tech support. It never didn't
Mar 23, 2008 6:58AM PDT

work before, through all the OS versions & TTP versions we've been through for some time. Now, it repeatedely gets halfway into volume structures & freezes.

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best price for Drive Genius
Mar 23, 2008 2:45AM PDT

I purchased Drive Genius about 2 years ago. First, the price at OWC is less than just the cost of an upgrade from the publisher.
Secondly, I was not impressed by the program. One day it hung so badly that I called their Tech Support. No one there could help. The computer would reboot to Drive Genius regardless of start-up keys held down.
I finally had to power down and disconnect the SuperDrive.

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Thanks for the input, but the product seems to be working
Mar 23, 2008 4:30AM PDT

entirely for me. Maybe its the version two that removed some kinks that needed to be taken care of. I
figure I'll use the Drive Genius 2 as an adjunct to to Alsoft Diskwarrior & Micromat Tech Tool Pro 4.6.1 as soon as I get some satisfaction from Micromat about it now freezing under Leopard which it never did before.