[X-Newbies] Utulities and such in OS X.

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 7:19 PM +0700 3/19/05, Brian Durant wrote:
>I am curious as to which utilities, etc. people are using in OS X.

I recommend against Symantec products and rail particularly against 
ever *installing* any product from Symantec onto an OS X machine. 
It's a cure in search of a disease (and the purported cure is more 
often detrimental to the patient than most of the rare incidences of 
the disease). If you do insist on using a utility from Symantec, run 
it from the CD.

A good backup regimen, knowledge of the Safe Boot procedure, and use 
of DiskWarrior & Disk Utility constitutes most of the utility that OS 
X needs. More exotic procedures usually take longer than a 
re-initialise & restore cycle anyway.
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