Hello Lee, I don't mean to imply laziness, but for some reasons when there is a TON of disk activity, such as iMovie then eventually the machine gets so slow it is unbearable and icons (mounted disk) disappear. My daughter does a small movie making business utilizing iMovie. There are often 50 to 400 photo's that she scans in, then does the Ken Burns affects, addis script, includes the songs the families want, saves to iDVD and attaches the themes and then renders and burns to disk. Let her do three to four of these and it becomes almost unusable and she often has to take the completed file and move it to my machine (of course she is married and doesn't live at home) to then add the theme and burn.
I finally got her to let me do DiskWarrior and TechTools (last week) and she could complete the entire project at her place. My son does TONS of movie making and post them to YouTube. He made ads for the Heinz Ketchup contest, and has now listed around a dozen video's, has had over 35,000 views, and gets around 300 emails a day to answer. All this causes his machine to do the same as my daughter's, lose icons, and the only way to get it back to normal is to do the DiskWarrior and TechTool dance, then all works fine. I don't do as much of these programs but I still do enough that about ever four to six months I need to improve the performance by running these programs. It never fails that the DiskWarrior finds out of bounds items so the description page is almost always full of red. Also, when I went to optimize my hard drive and the MacBook TechTools continued to quit. Normally I skip the disk sector test for it take so long, but after two of the aborted sessions I let it check the drive and it found two bad sectors, and it places where they could not be sequestered. I called Apple and they replaced the drive at no charge since it was under warranty. Had I not had TechTools do the test I would not have known. John R. On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Sep 11, at 10:48 AM, Profile wrote: > >> I don't know why so many don't have to do maintenance, I guess I am >> sloppy for if I don't use DiskWarrior to rebuild the >> directory and TechTools to do all it's thing then the machines slow >> and do weird things. > > What kind of weird things? > > I never do any disk maintenance on Mac OS X and have never seen any > strangeness I can attribute to my neglectful laziness. > >> When you purchase the "Applecare Protection Plan" they not only >> extend the warranty for two more years they send >> you a TechTools Deluxe disk, so I guess they either think it does >> some good or they want you to think you are getting >> something for your money in addition to the extra time of protection. > > I thought it was included because TechTool can do several different > kinds of hardware diagnostics such as testing RAM, reading SMART > and other such tomfoolery. > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
