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From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities.
DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' Jolly Roger, 9:07 น. Jolly Roger writes: Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO.
To each his ownthough. Disk Warrior is handy when helping people who didn't bother to backup. It can take quite a while to do its thing, but it is less expensive than US$1700 or so to a recovery service. When it works.
sub #'9+1,r0; convert ascii byte add #9.+1,r0; to an integer bcc 20$; not a number nospam, 10:17 น. In article, Jolly Roger wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' Finally!
Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO.
To each his ownthough. It's a helluva lot quicker to run diskwarrior and fix minor directory corruption than restore an entire hard drive. Doing that can also prevent major corruption that would end up with downtime and a full restore. [email protected], 10:22 น.
Jolly Roger, 10:27 น. On 2014-12-10, wrote: Jolly Roger writes: Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO.
To each his ownthough. Disk Warrior is handy when helping people who didn't bother to backup. It can take quite a while to do its thing, but it is less expensive than US$1700 or so to a recovery service. When it works. Yes, I acknowledge there is value in the tool for some folks.
I just don't have this need myself. Like I said, to each his own. Nospam, 10:32 น. In article, Lewis wrote: DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' My problem with DW is, as it always has been, that $120 is just too expensive.
Pretty sure they'd make a lot more money at $40. It wasn't always $120 which is still cheap when there is a corrupt drive that needs fixing. Neill Massello, 13:17 น.
Fred Moore wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). IMHO, this is the biggest selling point for the new version. Unfortunately, it comes a full seven years after Time Machine was introduced in 10.5, during which time users got used to the fact that DiskWarrior couldn't handle their large TM volumes. After all those years, how many will care that it now can?
Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. It's not clear that DW5 actually runs.from. the Recovery HD partition. In the DW comments at MacUpdate, DiskWarrior Proj-Mgr posted that 'it allows customers quick access to DiskWarrior when they need it by using a combination of the the Recovery environment and an external device containing DiskWarrior.' The partition repair is nice; but after a partition map got hosed, I might feel better with a full reformat and restore from backup. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.'
It should be noted that an additional $8.95 shipping fee applies to all DW5 purchases, including upgrades. But I'm wondering if many users might find this a bit of a 'meh' moment. DiskWarrior 4.4 apparently still runs in Yosemite; and if your Mac can boot from a 'retail' version of OS X, it's not hard to install it on a 16GB flash drive and add a copy of DW 4 (and other repair utilities) to it.
You won't have the Time Machine, partition repair, or other new features, but are those worth $69? For now, I'm on the fence - and waiting to read more reports from users. Christian, 13:56 น.
In article, Neill Massello wrote: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). IMHO, this is the biggest selling point for the new version. Not really, since for most people, 64 bit doesn't matter, since they didn't hit the limits of the 32 bit version. I certainly haven't, even with 2 terabyte drives. However, that's going to change going forward, as drive sizes continue to get larger and larger.
Unfortunately, it comes a full seven years after Time Machine was introduced in 10.5, during which time users got used to the fact that DiskWarrior couldn't handle their large TM volumes. It takes a lot of time to rewrite an app, especially one such as disk warrior which needs to be tested with all kinds of possible directory corruption. The test matrix for that must be insane. It took apple about 5 years to rewrite final cut for a 64 bit version and that was only because they removed a substantial amount of functionality, and that's also with team of programmers and a much larger budget.
7 years is not unreasonable for a small company to completely rewrite an app such as diskwarrior from scratch. After all those years, how many will care that it now can? Plenty, and not just those with corrupted time machine drives. Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. It's not clear that DW5 actually runs.from. the Recovery HD partition.
It does if you put it there. In the DW comments at MacUpdate, DiskWarrior Proj-Mgr posted that 'it allows customers quick access to DiskWarrior when they need it by using a combination of the the Recovery environment and an external device containing DiskWarrior.' The partition repair is nice; but after a partition map got hosed, I might feel better with a full reformat and restore from backup. The previous version didn't address partition map issues. If the new one does, that's a.huge.
improvement right there. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' It should be noted that an additional $8.95 shipping fee applies to all DW5 purchases, including upgrades. But I'm wondering if many users might find this a bit of a 'meh' moment. Only the haters. DiskWarrior 4.4 apparently still runs in Yosemite; and if your Mac can boot from a 'retail' version of OS X, it's not hard to install it on a 16GB flash drive and add a copy of DW 4 (and other repair utilities) to it.
You won't have the Time Machine, partition repair, or other new features, but are those worth $69? For now, I'm on the fence - and waiting to read more reports from users. $69 is nothing compared to the value of the data. For a lot of people, having disk warrior directly support fusion drives, core storage and drives with zillions of files (e.g., time machine drives) is well worth it. Alan Browne, 16:59 น. On 2014.12.10, 12:03, Fred Moore wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. My first company was called Alsoft (back in the early 80's).
Registered Co. I let it die after two projects failed to fly. Ah to be young! - 'Bestiary of Intelligence Writing' - CIA Alan Browne, 17:01 น. On 2014.12.10, 12:07, Jolly Roger wrote: On 2014-12-10, Fred Moore wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc.
A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' Finally! Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups.
Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO. To each his ownthough. Tend to agree.
Here the next day. Recover from various backups. (TM, External drives, DVD's, etc.). And usually the new disk is 2 - 4 times more capacity than the prior one. Fred Moore, 18:04 น. On 12/10/14 12:07 p, Jolly Roger wrote: Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO.
To each his ownthough. I certainly agree that secure, complete backups are imperative. However, I have personally seen instances where subtle corruption can sneak into a directory - incorrect volume block count/totals for example. If not corrected, these errors end up in all the backups, and the errors can eventually cause complete directory failure with loss of some or all data. In a commercial setting, I think it's a good idea to scan important volumes on a regular basis to repair minor errors before they infest all the backups and/or snowball into a catastrophic failure on the main drives.
And $60 for an upgrade to stay current is a bargain at twice the price, as they say. Entropy ALWAYS wins. Kevin McMurtrie, 20:13 น. In article, Fred Moore wrote: Meh. I grew accustomed to DW 4 crashing on large volumes years ago.
Recent versions of hfsfsck can rebuild catalogs, b-trees, metadata, and volume bitmaps to produce a consistent volume even after data has been lost. All it doesn't do is validate Finder flags and character encoding, and I don't think I need to waste more money and burn more DVD blanks just for that. I will not see posts from astraweb, theremailer, dizum, or google because they host Usenet flooders.
Kevin McMurtrie, 20:22 น. In article, Alan Browne wrote: On 2014.12.10, 12:07, Jolly Roger wrote: On 2014-12-10, Fred Moore wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs.
Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' Finally! Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO.
To each his ownthough. Tend to agree. Here the next day. Recover from various backups. (TM, External drives, DVD's, etc.).
And usually the new disk is 2 - 4 times more capacity than the prior one. I run fsck/fsckhfs/e2fsck even while building a replacement RAID. More backups are better.
I still have bad memories of making RAIDs with Deskstar 75GXP drives and having them go senile faster than the round trips on warranty replacements. [email protected], 1:54 น. On 2014-12-10 21:17:37 +0000, (Neill Massello) said: But I'm wondering if many users might find this a bit of a 'meh' moment. DiskWarrior 4.4 apparently still runs in Yosemite; and if your Mac can boot from a 'retail' version of OS X, it's not hard to install it on a 16GB flash drive and add a copy of DW 4 (and other repair utilities) to it. You won't have the Time Machine, partition repair, or other new features, but are those worth $69? For now, I'm on the fence - and waiting to read more reports from users. And I'm a huge fan of DW.
I have used DW for years. Ever since Norton Utilities completely hosed my HD. Nothing would touch the drive, except DW. That being said, $68 for an upgrade? Maybe if I had a Time Machine backup, or large drives - but absent that, DW 4.4 works fine with Yosemite right now. Why upgrade now if I don't need to?
It ain't the money. I mean, if it becomes a necessity, I can always upgrade IF I need it in the future. Q: How do you know when is lying? A: Ubiquitous fingers are moving. Reveals himself to be a sockpuppet of sickpuppy Ubiquitous Warren Oates, 6:40 น.
In article, Kevin McMurtrie wrote: I will not see posts from astraweb, theremailer, dizum, or google because they host Usenet flooders. I wish I had your Purity of Essence. (you might want to add aioe and mixmin to that, no? Ah fuck it, why not just read only your own posts and have done with it?) - Where's the Vangelis music? Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene. notes for Blade Runner Brian Gordon, 9:06 น. In article, Lewis wrote: Okay, so one time? In band camp?
Fred Moore was all, like: On 12/10/14 12:07 p, Jolly Roger wrote: Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO. To each his ownthough.
I certainly agree that secure, complete backups are imperative. HoweverI have personally seen instances where subtle corruption can sneak into a directory - incorrect volume block count/totals for example. If not corrected, these errors end up in all the backups, and the errors can eventually cause complete directory failure with loss of some or all data. How often has that happened? I've never seen anything like subtle corruption. Heavy corruption, yes. Subtle corruption is the minor, possibly unnoticible stuff that, if uncorrected, can lead to heavy corruption.
An ounce of prevention, etc. Brian Gordon -.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:07:26 UTC, Jolly Roger wrote: On 2014-12-10, Fred Moore wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models).
Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs.
Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' Finally! Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO. To each his ownthough.
Several years ago my Time Machine drive was corrupted. There is no backup to the backup. Dick Utility and Tech Tools couldn't restore the drive but Disk Warrior did. I suppose I could have done without a couple of years of old files, but I felt better having them available.
Yes, I also had two current backups, one of them off-site. I lost the place where I kept the off-site copy, so now I keep one in the trunk of the car. John Varela David Empson, 16:44 น. One minor point: DW 5 doesn't involve DVDs any more. Alsoft has switched to flash drives. Unfortunately they haven't improved their distribution mechanism: upgrading to DW 5 requires them to physically post you a flash drive containing the application, which I assume will be branded in some way with your serial number (as was the case with the DVDs used by DW4 and earlier). New buyers (at full price) can get a download version immediately and the flash drive posted to them.
I don't know why they don't also offer that for upgrades. I expect that subsequent minor updates should be downloadable but will need to update the official flash drive.
I ordered an upgrade to DW5 about two days ago (as soon as I was aware of it), and they shipped it today. If I'm lucky it should just arrive before Christmas, based on a recent US First Class Mail delivery taking ten days to reach me in New Zealand.
David Empson [email protected], 16:50 น. FPP, 18:27 น. On 2014-12-11 19:44:15 -0500, (David Empson) said: Unfortunately they haven't improved their distribution mechanism: upgrading to DW 5 requires them to physically post you a flash drive containing the application, which I assume will be branded in some way with your serial number (as was the case with the DVDs used by DW4 and earlier). New buyers (at full price) can get a download version immediately and the flash drive posted to them. I don't know why they don't also offer that for upgrades. Did it specify what size flash drive?
I don't remember seeing that. I also don't understand the need for a flash drive. I already have a ton of flash drives already. In fact, I have a flash drive for every OS from Snow Leopard through Yosemite with a copy of DW, Onyx and Superduper already on it. All I really need to do is copy over DW 5, and I'm done. Unless there's some kind of restriction on the flash drive they send you, what is it needed for? I'm going to assume it will still run off of a HD, rather than exclusively off the flash drive.
Otherwise, I won't be upgrading at ANY price. Running off a flash drive may be a necessity sometimes - but I already have a number of bootable operating systems on my tower. Flash drives are maddeningly S L O W. 'Ubi, or not Ubi. That is the question.'
Shakespeare Is a suckpuppet of Ubiquitous? David Empson, 20:21 น. FPP wrote: On 2014-12-11 19:44:15 -0500, (David Empson) said: Unfortunately they haven't improved their distribution mechanism: upgrading to DW 5 requires them to physically post you a flash drive containing the application, which I assume will be branded in some way with your serial number (as was the case with the DVDs used by DW4 and earlier). New buyers (at full price) can get a download version immediately and the flash drive posted to them. I don't know why they don't also offer that for upgrades. Did it specify what size flash drive?
I don't remember seeing that. I expect it is in the order of 8 GB, as it needs to be big enough to fit a bootable OS X system copied from your startup volume. I also don't understand the need for a flash drive. I already have a ton of flash drives already. In fact, I have a flash drive for every OS from Snow Leopard through Yosemite with a copy of DW, Onyx and Superduper already on it. All I really need to do is copy over DW 5, and I'm done. You can copy DW 5 onto your existing bootable flash drive as well.
Unless there's some kind of restriction on the flash drive they send you, what is it needed for? I'm going to assume it will still run off of a HD, rather than exclusively off the flash drive. That part won't change. The supplied flash drive probably forms part of their branding or copy protection mechanism. I'll know more when it arrives and I have time to look at it. Otherwise, I won't be upgrading at ANY price. Running off a flash drive may be a necessity sometimes - but I already have a number of bootable operating systems on my tower.
Flash drives are maddeningly S L O W. David Empson FPP, 0:12 น. On 2014-12-12 04:21:32 +0000, (David Empson) said: FPP wrote: On 2014-12-11 19:44:15 -0500, (David Empson) said: Unfortunately they haven't improved their distribution mechanism: upgrading to DW 5 requires them to physically post you a flash drive containing the application, which I assume will be branded in some way with your serial number (as was the case with the DVDs used by DW4 and earlier). New buyers (at full price) can get a download version immediately and the flash drive posted to them. I don't know why they don't also offer that for upgrades. Did it specify what size flash drive? I don't remember seeing that.
I expect it is in the order of 8 GB, as it needs to be big enough to fit a bootable OS X system copied from your startup volume. I also don't understand the need for a flash drive. I already have a ton of flash drives already. In fact, I have a flash drive for every OS from Snow Leopard through Yosemite with a copy of DW, Onyx and Superduper already on it. All I really need to do is copy over DW 5, and I'm done. You can copy DW 5 onto your existing bootable flash drive as well.
Unless there's some kind of restriction on the flash drive they send you, what is it needed for? I'm going to assume it will still run off of a HD, rather than exclusively off the flash drive. That part won't change. The supplied flash drive probably forms part of their branding or copy protection mechanism. I'll know more when it arrives and I have time to look at it. Otherwise, I won't be upgrading at ANY price.
Running off a flash drive may be a necessity sometimes - but I already have a number of bootable operating systems on my tower. Flash drives are maddeningly S L O W. Your assuming that you'll be able to just copy DW 5 over to an existing flash? I'm hoping that's true. But I think I'll wait until I hear from you after you've gotten your copy.
Please drop us a line when you get the chance. I don't remember their current copy protection scheme requiring a password before I copied the app to my flash drives. I recall it asking way back when.
But that was years ago. Q: How do you know when is lying? A: Ubiquitous fingers are moving. Reveals himself to be a sockpuppet of sickpuppy Ubiquitous Neill Massello, 1:36 น.
David Empson wrote: I expect it is in the order of 8 GB, as it needs to be big enough to fit a bootable OS X system copied from your startup volume. My layman's WAG is that the Recovery HD partition will be the source for updating the DW flash drive. That would leave most the heavy lifting - selecting the essential components necessary for booting the hardware in question - to Apple, keep DW's updater app relatively simple, and exploit the RAM disk approach used by Recovery HD. Alsoft's promotional material makes a point of stating that DiskWarrior 5 is designed to run in the Recovery HD environment as well as in a full OS installation.
The bootable DW optical discs came in under 2GB, and my Mavericks Recovery partition is only 650MB, so it could probably be managed on a 4GB drive. But Alsoft will probably use at least an 8, as the paltry additional cost is well worth the added flexibility. Your assuming that you'll be able to just copy DW 5 over to an existing flash? I'm hoping that's true. But I think I'll wait until I hear from you after you've gotten your copy.
Please drop us a line when you get the chance. I don't remember their current copy protection scheme requiring a password before I copied the app to my flash drives.
I recall it asking way back when. But that was years ago. It didn't ask for a 'password': for DW4 and earlier, the serial number is printed on the DVD supplied by Alsoft, and when they supplied an update, you needed to insert your DVD and enter your serial number (I recall being annoyed by this once because you can't read the serial number off the DVD while it is in the drive, so you need to remember it or write it down); the updater then copied the DVD and burned a new one with an updated application. Once you got through all of that rigmarole, there was no problem copying the application off the DVD and installing it on your hard drive (or another drive). It has been such a long time since I did that for DW4, I don't recall whether it asked for the serial number again when running such a copy for the first time, or whether it was already burned into the application before it was copied from the DVD. Whichever was the case, I expect there will be a similar mechanism for the flash drive supplied by Alsoft for DW5.
David Empson David Empson, 3:52 น. Neill Massello wrote: David Empson wrote: I expect it is in the order of 8 GB, as it needs to be big enough to fit a bootable OS X system copied from your startup volume.
My layman's WAG is that the Recovery HD partition will be the source for updating the DW flash drive. DW5 supports OS X 10.5.8 and later, and there is no recovery partition prior to 10.7, so it can't be depending on the recovery partition at least for older OS X versions. They could be using a mixed solution: copy a predefined subset of files for 10.5.x or 10.6.x; use the recovery partition for 10.7.x and later.
No doubt it will make more sense once someone actually gets it and reports on the details. That would leave most the heavy lifting - selecting the essential components necessary for booting the hardware in question - to Applekeep DW's updater app relatively simple, and exploit the RAM disk approach used by Recovery HD. Alsoft's promotional material makes a point of stating that DiskWarrior 5 is designed to run in the Recovery HD environment as well as in a full OS installation. I'm curious how they manage that, since the recovery partition doesn't have an obvious way of launching anything outside its standard set of applications, other than going via Terminal and typing in commands. The bootable DW optical discs came in under 2GB, and my Mavericks Recovery partition is only 650MB, so it could probably be managed on a 4GB drive. But Alsoft will probably use at least an 8, as the paltry additional cost is well worth the added flexibility. David Empson Neill Massello, 8:32 น.
David Empson wrote: DW5 supports OS X 10.5.8 and later, and there is no recovery partition prior to 10.7, so it can't be depending on the recovery partition at least for older OS X versions. They could be using a mixed solution: copy a predefined subset of files for 10.5.x or 10.6.x; use the recovery partition for 10.7.x and later. The flash drive doesn't need any modifications to boot older Intel Macs. From the DW 5 requirements page: 'The DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive ships with the ability to start up any Intel Mac that originally came with OS X 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6 installed. If you have a newer Intel Mac, you can use the included DiskWarrior Recovery Maker to update the DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive to start up your newer Mac.' Paul Sture, 7:24 น.
On 2014-12-12, David Empson wrote: FPP wrote: On 2014-12-11 19:44:15 -0500, (David Empson) said: Unfortunately they haven't improved their distribution mechanism: upgrading to DW 5 requires them to physically post you a flash drive containing the application, which I assume will be branded in some way with your serial number (as was the case with the DVDs used by DW4 and earlier). New buyers (at full price) can get a download version immediately and the flash drive posted to them. I don't know why they don't also offer that for upgrades.
Did it specify what size flash drive? I don't remember seeing that. I expect it is in the order of 8 GB, as it needs to be big enough to fit a bootable OS X system copied from your startup volume. I also don't understand the need for a flash drive. I already have a ton of flash drives already.
In fact, I have a flash drive for every OS from Snow Leopard through Yosemite with a copy of DW, Onyx and Superduper already on it. All I really need to do is copy over DW 5, and I'm done. You can copy DW 5 onto your existing bootable flash drive as well. Unless there's some kind of restriction on the flash drive they send you, what is it needed for? I'm going to assume it will still run off of a HD, rather than exclusively off the flash drive. That part won't change.
The supplied flash drive probably forms part of their branding or copy protection mechanism. I'll know more when it arrives and I have time to look at it. My experience trying DiskMaker X to create a 10.10 installer on USB stick tells me that not all USB sticks are made equal. I was not alone in this, and yes, the same USB sticks that failed under DiskMaker X did work with the Terminal incantations.
My take on this is that by providing a USB stick, the DW folks are ensuring that one of a known quality will be used in conjunction with their software product. I can imagine that they will be saving on long term support costs here by avoiding the situation where customers swear blind that their self-provided USB sticks are OK but in fact aren't (could be inferior quality and we cannot ignore the possibility of lurking malware on a USB stick that has been used previously). Otherwise, I won't be upgrading at ANY price.
Running off a flash drive may be a necessity sometimes - but I already have a number of bootable operating systems on my tower. Flash drives are maddeningly S L O W. I'm much more interested in having reliable boot media than swift boot times during a recovery operation. Is recronstruction something which is rebuilt periodically in UNIX? Paul Sture, 7:24 น. On 2014-12-12, David Empson wrote: It didn't ask for a 'password': for DW4 and earlier, the serial number is printed on the DVD supplied by Alsoft, and when they supplied an update, you needed to insert your DVD and enter your serial number (I recall being annoyed by this once because you can't read the serial number off the DVD while it is in the drive, so you need to remember it or write it down); the updater then copied the DVD and burned a new one with an updated application. That can be a real pain in the neck, particularly where the OS either refuses to open the DVD drawer or once opened tries to close it before you have had chance to remove the disk.
FWIW I got into the habit of taking a photo of serial numbers when I was doing Windows installations a few years ago. The Windows authorisation key would typically be attached to the computer but other software keys would be on discs or paper; it was much easier to pull the lot together for a system by pasting photos into one document. How many Linux users does it take to change a lightbulb? 1 to change it and 19 others to install new sockets to do it their own way. FPP, 12:49 น.
On 2014-12-13 12:15:39 +0000, Paul Sture said: On 2014-12-12, David Empson wrote: It didn't ask for a 'password': for DW4 and earlier, the serial number is printed on the DVD supplied by Alsoft, and when they supplied an update, you needed to insert your DVD and enter your serial number (I recall being annoyed by this once because you can't read the serial number off the DVD while it is in the drive, so you need to remember it or write it down); the updater then copied the DVD and burned a new one with an updated application. That can be a real pain in the neck, particularly where the OS either refuses to open the DVD drawer or once opened tries to close it before you have had chance to remove the disk. FWIW I got into the habit of taking a photo of serial numbers when I was doing Windows installations a few years ago. The Windows authorisation key would typically be attached to the computer but other software keys would be on discs or paper; it was much easier to pull the lot together for a system by pasting photos into one document. I also use 1Password for my password logins. I just store any new software keys in there.
So long as you do it religiously, you can't lose any registration info. As far as flash media goes, I've never found one that wouldn't boot. Some wouldn't work with DiskmakerX, but I can always just do an install from Apple's own installer. It takes eons, but it works. Kevin McMurtrie, 22:38 น. In article, 'John Varela' wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:07:26 UTC, Jolly Roger wrote: On 2014-12-10, Fred Moore wrote: From today's Macintouch: 'DiskWarrior is a respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc.
A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5 rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). Other improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition; delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. DiskWarrior 5 is priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing owners are $59.95.' Finally! Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO.
To each his ownthough. Several years ago my Time Machine drive was corrupted. There is no backup to the backup.
Dick Utility and Tech Tools couldn't restore the drive but Disk Warrior did. I suppose I could have done without a couple of years of old files, but I felt better having them available. Yes, I also had two current backups, one of them off-site. I lost the place where I kept the off-site copy, so now I keep one in the trunk of the car.
Get a newer version of fsckhfs. The old one would abort if there was permanent data loss while the new can continue. This gets you past the infamous cross-linked files problem. (Two or more files destroyed because they're overlapping) - I will not see posts from astraweb, theremailer, dizum, or google because they host Usenet flooders. Neill Massello, 11:25 น. In article, Lewis wrote: I'm still pissed that I can't simply download the upgrade. This tells me they are still a 90s company with 90s mentality.
That is reinforced with how long it took them to release a 64bit update. By that metric, apple is a 90s company because apple took about as long to release a 64 bit version of final cut pro, and that's only by removing a lot of features in the process. Greg Pratt 19/1/2015, 10:13 น. In article, Christian wrote: Neill Massello wrote: It should be noted that an additional $8.95 shipping fee applies to all DW5 purchases, including upgrades.
It is absolutely not understandable that they do not offer an 'electronic delivery' of the product. Following placement of my order last week, Alsoft contacted me via e-mail over the weekend to verify my delivery address. I had moved since my original purchase of DiskWarrior some years ago, and neither the billing nor the shipping address matched what they had on file. My suspicion is that they are starting fresh with new serial numbers (the one used for all prior versions was the same one I got with the initial purchase), as well as making sure customer records are up to date. It's also possible they're having some sort of licensing or technical issue WRT providing bootable CD or DVD images. I'll have to wait for the arrival of my USB stick to find out.
And I intend to check out what's on it before actually using it. Gregory Pratt South Orange, NJ, USA 'You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.' PGP Key Fingerprint: DC60 FCDE 91E2 3D41 91A3 45DB B474 3D3A 3621 AAFE David Empson 19/1/2015, 13:48 น.
Greg Pratt wrote: In articleChristian wrote: Neill Massello wrote: It should be noted that an additional $8.95 shipping fee applies to all DW5 purchases, including upgrades. It is absolutely not understandable that they do not offer an 'electronic delivery' of the product.
Following placement of my order last week, Alsoft contacted me via e-mail over the weekend to verify my delivery address. I had moved since my original purchase of DiskWarrior some years ago, and neither the billing nor the shipping address matched what they had on file. My suspicion is that they are starting fresh with new serial numbers (the one used for all prior versions was the same one I got with the initial purchase), as well as making sure customer records are up to date. I can confirm the serial numbers have changed - the new pattern is XXXX-XXXX-XXXX rather than LLNNNNNN. It's also possible they're having some sort of licensing or technical issue WRT providing bootable CD or DVD images.
I'm sure they wanted to get away from CD/DVD because of the lack of a suitable drive on almost all current Macs, and many dating back to 2008. As I haven't bought a new licence, I'm not sure what form the download-only version takes, but I expect it doesn't include a bootable system. Their licence for that system may require distributing it on physical media. I'll have to wait for the arrival of my USB stick to find out. And I intend to check out what's on it before actually using it. It is a 2 GB USB flash drive, with two partitions.
One of them ('DW') has the DiskWarrior application and associated files, the other is a bootable 'DiskWarrior Recovery' partition containing Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J4136). The OS X build number implies this was a model-specific or other special build of 10.6.7, not a general release. It is three builds earlier than the last DVD which was distributed with the iMac (Mid 2011) and MacBook Pro Early 2011), and it isn't listed on Apple's support page of Mac OS X builds that were distributed, so it may be a special build for utility vendors.
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It is new enough to boot all Macs which originally shipped with Snow Leopard, and is also compatible with all Intel Macs which originally shipped with Tiger or Leopard. For newer Macs, you can create your own bootable flash drive (or update the supplied one) using the DiskWarrior Recovery Maker application.
It works by copying the recovery partition (Lion or later) and making a minor change to the copy to add DiskWarrior to the recovery menu. You can also run DiskWarrior from a standard recovery partition, with the DiskWarrior USB flash drive inserted, by going into Terminal (from the Utilities menu) and typing /Volumes/DW/go - David Empson Asger H J 26/1/2015, 2:50 น. On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:50:34 UTC, Asger H J wrote: Yes. The old version of Disk Warrior doesn't work on my 4 TB Time Machine drive. FYI: My Time Machine displays dates going back to December 2012 but only dates for the last year or so were viewable. Click on an earlier date and nothing happened. So I wanted to run Disk Warrior on it, but it wouldn't run.
Just now I went into Time Machine and now I can view my system contents from December 2012. The disk miraculously fixed itself, so who needs to spend a C-note on a Disk Warrior update? - John Varela.
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