On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:29 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
In case anyone wonders (or cares), I ran DiskWarrior last night, and after12 hours? Wow, that drive had problems... tell me, were there overlapped/crosslinked files?
twelve hours (!) of repair, my machine came back behaving much more
nicely. At the very least, I could once again use the Finder. I also ran
the Disk Permissions Repair.
Unfortunately, the fonts are still all missing from the system, and noDo yourself a favor and invest in a font management utility like Suitcase or Font Reserve. This way your wife can set up font sets organized how she sees fit (job, client) and you won't have the overhead of all of those fonts. BTW, I don't know if your performance improvement is due to fewer fonts being active but rather to the elimination of a problematic HDD.
amount of dragging them into and out of the Fonts folder makes any
difference, sigh. Everything is *much* more speedy when running with just
the ten default system fonts, however--300+ installed fonts seems to
really bog things down. It's the price you pay for having a professional
designer as a spouse...
Ah well, I came to OS X as sort of a Linux refugee. I guess I'm tradingUnfortunately, not yet. OS X is *alot* more forgiving about dealing with corrupted hard drive directories and fragmentation. In many cases under OS 9 and earlier the system just wouldn't boot. That may actually have been better as it would force one to repair the corruption. It appears that under OS X the forgiving nature of the OS towards the HDD creates a ton of problems.
off the immense amount of time you can spend fixing Linux problems for the
fact that on a proprietary OS you sometimes *can't* fix all your
problems....
I am completely ignorant of the advantages of a journaled FS. To steer this thread even further OT, perhaps someone more enlightened about JFSes could elaborate a bit?
Phil Burk
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