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Re: Dream maintenance script
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Re: Dream maintenance script


  • Subject: Re: Dream maintenance script
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:48:42 -0400

On 09/08/2003 12:55, "Bill Planey" <email@hidden> wrote:

> 1. Launch DiskWarrior 3.0 and fix directory on volume X, replacing said
> directory without user intervention...upon completion...
>
> 2. ...launch Drive 10 and perform a specific set of analyze/repair tasks on
> same volume X (when TechTool Pro is ready for OS X, this will take Drive
> 10's place in this chain)...upon completion...
>
> 3. ...launch Norton Utilities and analyze/fix same volume X, then switch to
> Norton Speed Disk and defrag same volume X.

Other than speed disk, exactly what good are steps 2 and 3? Letting norton
modify your drive automatically is probably safer than bouncing it down the
stairs, but not by much. The only thing norton will do for you that DW won't
is to check individual files for corruption, but it can't fix those.

>
> Now, DiskWarrior comes with sample AppleScripts, but the one called "Rebuild
> Directory" cannot complete its task without the user intervening to click
> the OK button to give permission to replace the directory with the newly
> optimized one. [NOT TRUE - I FIGURED THIS OUT...] Also, at the beginning
> of the script, DW requires that the admin password be entered to proceed.
> Can these two steps be automated? I looked through the "Rebuild Directory"
> script and could not find a section that seemed to deal with these events.

Um...can I just say that running 4 diskutilities the way you are thinking of
is just begging for dead drives?

john

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