You may well be OK but the single most important thing is the back ups, just in case your disk does go belly up.
People seem to like Disk Warrior best for repairing hard disk problems - I'd be inclined to give that a try if DFA is not helping. Paul On 31 Oct 2008, at 08:22, NOEL SIDEBOTTOM wrote: > > Hi Paul: thanks for that: > > Do I detect a sinister but unwritten "you're gonna need it!" after > the words "good luck"... or am I just being paranoid?. > > I ran Disk Utility yesterday and it came back happy that apart from a > few minor permission fixes everything was fine... > > Oh well.. > > Thanks anyway > > NDS > ~~~~~~~~~ > > > On 31 Oct 2008, at 15:02, Paul Russell wrote: > >> >> (1) MAKE SURE YOU HAVE UP-TO-DATE BACK UPS >> >> (2) Run Disk First Aid >> >> (3) Good luck >> >> Paul >> >> On 31 Oct 2008, at 07:09, NOEL SIDEBOTTOM wrote: >> >>>> Hi all: >>>> >>>> I am periodically getting the following message: >>>> >>>> >>>> [Hard Drive]: Allocation Overlap (-694) >>>> >>>> (Reported by TechTool 4 diagnostics) >>>> >>>> >>>> It does not seem to co-incide with any system problems or crashes >>>> >>>> Can anyone advise as to what it means and what I should do about it >>>> if anything? >>>> >>>> >>>> Imac G5 / OSX 4.11 >>>> >>>> Thanks for any replies. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> NOEL SIDEBOTTOM >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >> >>> > > NOEL SIDEBOTTOM > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
