On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 02:22 PM, Don Hinkle wrote: > I thot DW was okay to use on OS X? > Can it "see" all the directory and files, even the invisible ones?
invisible files are part of the directory, they just have a flag called 'invisibility' turned on. DiskWarrior will see and take into account these files. DiskWarrior (and most other utilities) are "OS agnostic". They don't care what OS is installed on the hard drive, or whether there is even one there. As far as DW (or norton, or whatever) is concerned, a Disk is a Disk, and the fact that files A and Z are part of OS X or OS 9 is irrelevant. What these utilities really care about is how the disk is formatted. Any recent utility should be able to repair HFS+ volumes, the default formatting for all modern Macs. A good utility will support the original HFS (note the lack of the '+') as well. Systems before 8.1 (or somewhere thereabouts) cannot read HFS+ volumes. What DW is really saying when they say "System 7.1 through OS 9" is that they can handle both HFS and HFS+. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
