[Ti] Diagnostic, maintenance and repair utilities for Jaguar/TiBook

[paulatx1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/10/2003 11:11:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, boettiger at mindspring.com writes:

> 
> list members' preferences for diagnostic, maintenance and 
> repair utilities
> for Jaguar, other than those the system itself offers.
    I'm waiting for TechToolPro (hopefully out by March or April if I remember correctly from the trade show).  I have not been happy with Norton  since OS8  so I'm not holding my breath for their update.  I did like DiskWarrior.  But I always found TechToolPro to be the most useful for me.
     The really good news is   the built in repair utilities  really are powerful.  (translation: worked for me when nothing else would)  The Disc Utility (in your Applications folder>Utilities>FirstAid  can do everything from verify to repairing discs (drives), repair files, erase discs, partition a drive.   There is also the (new to Jaguar)  Repair Disc Permissions   that often cleans up little problems.  And  don't forget the ever popular (trust me on this one)  trash the preferences  for the offending or ailing program (look for plists).  All of these are on your harddrive  and your OS startup disk.  You have already paid for them! 
     There is also the even more powerful  fsck  in Terminal mode for the brave of heart  or skilled of Unix.  It's built into the Unix underpinnings of Jaguar!
                        Paula