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

[Derick Centeno]

Thanks Mark for your comment regarding Techtools.  I thought I was 
outnumbered, here.  All that grating, gnashing of teeth and all... 
another voice, yours, is sincerely appreciated. :-)  Things can be 
rough here, but overall they are nice people.... really!

On Jul 21, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Mark Guertin wrote:

> Just wanted to chime in on a few things from this thread..
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> Techtool uses it's own hfs/hfs+ repair tools to do the dirty work (and 
> not fsck, which I bet drive genius does -- probably why neither fsck 
> or drive genius could fix the damage).  Again the now gone Norton Disk 
> Doctor had yet another set of repair tools.  These apps take a 
> different approach than Diskwarrior, in fact the opposite.  They look 
> at the catalogs and then try to match up all the files in the 
> filesystem to them, repairing things as found and needed, and they do 
> a muc more in depth scan of the files themselves and rarely touch the 
> catalogs.  have you ever seen the screen in Disk Doctor that dumped 
> you into the "filesaver" mode?  That basically meant that the catalogs 
> were corrupted beyond repair and it did the  diskwarrior type thing to 
> try and find any files that were intact...