-
ATTN: Rafael Amador – DiskWarrior question
Hi Rafael,
I have just used DiskWarrior to fix a problem with a RAID volume. Thanks for making me aware of this program. My questions to you are: What is your plan for using DiskWarrior for preventive maintenance? Do you run it on a regular schedule on all of your drives? Do you use DiskWarrior instead of the Apple Disk Utility or do you employ both? Any thoughts or tips you have are appreciated. Thanks.
Tom -
19 Replies
-
Tom,
I’m not Rafael nor do I play him on TV, but I’ll step up to the plate for him just this once, as I think he’s probably out in the field now.
I use DW and Apple Disk Utility too, as they really do different things. As for frequency of use, I use them about once per month on average, or when I detect an issue. I don’t think you can really run DW or Apple Disk Utility too often.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
-
Base hit! Thank you David. DiskWarrior is good. By the way, I’m one of those people who answers mostly basic questions on this site and happy to do it.
-
Another great tool is Drive Genius, but like David, I use DW about once a month.
Have a wonderful day.
-
[Tom Brooks] “By the way, I’m one of those people who answers mostly basic questions on this site and happy to do it.”
Tom,
For the second time today I’ll admit to becoming frustrated from time. It’s not basic questions that bother me, I enjoy showing the light to new users who are struggling. I get frustrated by those who refuse to read the manual, refuse to get any training, refuse to search for answers before asking, and then take on HD projects with multiple formats and framerates, all while trying to work on a system with the minimum requirements or less. Yes, that just about encapsulates it for me…
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
-
you guys use DW monthly?
ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure?
I’ve only used it one time on an external drive
that went south. It recovered everything. -
dw monthly? Heck no. Use it when you have a problem. I’ll go out on a limb here and say I never run preventative anything. I only run dw or fix permissions or anything like that when I have problems with drives which has been very very rare. Disk warrior can actually do more harm than good if you run it without reason, especially on raids.
-
[Jeremy Garchow] ” fix permissions “
You should fix permissions before and after a software install.
Warren
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://babyboompictures.com/AFX_Movie2.html
https://babyboompictures.com/KnitWits_Movie.htmlEDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Editing_Reel.html
TITLE DESIGN: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Titles_Reel.html -
…and if you don’t?
-
[Jeremy Garchow] “Disk warrior can actually do more harm than good if you run it without reason”
Sorry J.G., but that’s like one of those Internet hoaxes you get in emails from your friends.
DW may not be compatible with certain raids that have their own proprietary disk structures, but anything software raided with Apple Disk Utility or Raid Utility is absolutely safe.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
-
Re: repairing permissions
When you install software in the unix based OS X, certain files have permissions set so you can’t do damage to the system by inadvertently throwing away or moving files.
When you install software, especially from Apple that replaces system files, but also certain plugins that install in system libraries, sometimes the installer has to change a user permission from say R (read) W (write) or X (no permission), temporarily. However, sometimes it forgets to change the permission back and this is when the system can get “wonky.”
By repairing permissions before an update you make sure all permissions are correct before the software is installed, thus the correct files can be updated. You repair after the update to make sure permissions are restored to default so you don’t start crashing or having kernel panics, etc.
HTH,
Warren
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://babyboompictures.com/AFX_Movie2.html
https://babyboompictures.com/KnitWits_Movie.htmlEDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Editing_Reel.html
TITLE DESIGN: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Titles_Reel.html
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up