On 04/01/2006, at 5:01 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote:
My wife has an iMac 1GHz PowerPC G4 256 MB DDR SDRAM Running OS
10.4.3 This has been running well until New Years Eve we were
invaded by Teenagers,one of which simply wanted to "lookup her
email". :-( On New Years Day the iMac seem to be running rather
slowly so I thought I would run 'Disk Warrior' 3.0.3. All goes
well until one gets to stage 5 'Locating directory
data' ,rebuilding directory and the indicator bar is about 55%
across the screen and then it stops and nothing more happens. The
disk can be heard going and the scroll bar 'shakes' but does not
progress. It then complains that it is going slowly because of
shortage of Ram (!) and it can be left for hours and nothing more
happens.
I have repaired permissions and done fsck -fy and prayed to Allah
but no Joy.
The iMac seems to perform OK and is maybe a little quicker since I
have 'doctored it' but I do not like the fact that I cannot run
Disk Warrior.
Disk Warrior runs normally on my iBook.
Anyone any suggestions please
Mac
It seems to me that the number of situations in which Disk Warrior
fails to do anything is increasing. This utility used to be 100%
reliable in Classic Mac OS. It is much less so in Mac OS X, and,
IMHO, a much inferior product to its predecessor. The preview feature
is almost pointless (the same feature in Mac OS 9 is what sets it
apart - you can back up precious files before repairing the disk),
and I have actually had the program time out while generating a
damage report, among other problems.
Boot from a MacOS X install disk and repair the disk using Disk
Utility. I think you'll have much more success.
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Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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