When bad things happen to good Mac's [OT]

[Clinton MacDonald]

Dr. Sacco:

That's a nice story with a happy ending (fortunately).

Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> Had an OS X 10.3.9 disaster the other day. OS X was no longer
> able to boot.
> [...]
> (4) purchase copy of "Disk Warrior" 3.0.3.
> 
> (5) run Disk Warrior.
> 
> ==> all is  well once more.

I have heard or read dozens and dozens of anecdotal stories in which 
DiskWarrior saved someone's bacon. In fact, I have heard so many 
stories, that I have never had an instance of needing DiskWarrior: I run 
"fsck -fy" (or Apple's Disk Utility) followed by DiskWarrior on all my 
Macs about once a month as a preventative maintenance measure.

(For what it is worth, versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.3 used to report 
multiple errors with fsck *and* DiskWarrior on every run, even after 
just a few days. With more recent versions of Mac OS X, these errors are 
increasingly rare.)

Good luck with your computing, both Mac OS and Linux!

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>