on 6/25/00 6:12 AM, Simon Kornblith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 6/25/00 2:06 AM, someone claiming to be John Tree at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I Really dont know. It could have been Norton, Techtools, or when I copied
>> over from the 2400 to the G4 (could be a possibility considering the G4 has
>> a SCUSI card that is a third party add on)
>>
>> Still a mystery. I am prone to point the figer at Techtools as I have never
>> used it and Norton has never let me down.
>>
>> There is no pattern such as modification date, size, etc. to which files are
>> fried.
>
> TechTool is the world's slowest but safest optimizer. I restarted my G4 when
> optimizing and lost nothing, because TechTool writes stuff to the hard drive
> and keeps nothing in RAM when optimizing, whereas Norton will keep pieces in
> RAM.
Thanks for that tip I hadnt used it before. norton does seem to be getting a
bit fancy. It found a bunch of file errors on a clean install of OS9 as
well, which doesnt endow confidence.
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