Disk fragmentation
Gordon B. Alley
galley at texas.net
Fri Apr 18 06:12:57 PDT 2003
They put the note about the non-inclusion of PlusOptimizer in 3.0 in
a bright yellow box titled "What you will receive:" near the end of
the web page, so I wouldn't exactly say its "hidden".
I guess those who are scroll-bar-challenged might not see it. :-)
--Gordon
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:28:05 -0400, Steve Robertson
<stever at mindspring.com> wrote:
>I'm afraid Gordon's original post was correct. The note about
>PlusOptimizer is hidden way down at the bottom of the page. But if you
>go to the PlusOptimizer support page, you find that the current version
>of PlusOptimizer will work on OS X 10.2 disks. The only exception is
>that they don't recommend using PlusOptimizer on disks where journaling
>is turned on. What the heck is "journaling"?
>
>I also noticed that, if you buy a copy of DiskWarrior after Feb. 1,
>2003, you get a free upgrade to 3.0. So buy a current copy just for
>PlusOptimizer, then take advantage of the free upgrade when it's
>available. I've been following this optimization discussion, and i
>think I'll try that strategy.
>
>Steve R.
>On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 02:02 AM, Chris Searles wrote:
>
>> on 18.04.2003 4:41 Uhr, Gordon B. Alley at galley at texas.net typed
>> vigorously:
>>
>>>>> But I do like the Optimize function and disk warrior does not have
>>>>> that... right?
>>>>
>>>> On the DiskWarrior CD is another program called PlusOptimizer. That
>>>> is
>>>> the defragging program and works exactly as the Norton "SpeedDisk"
>>>> program does.
>>>
>>> The Alsoft web page at
>>> <http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/diskwarrior3info.html>
>>> notes that PlusOptimizer will not come bundled with the new
>>> DiskWarrior 3.0 that they are taking pre-orders for now.
>>
>> That's funny. I read that it won't come bundled with Disk Shield. I
>> couldn't
>> find anything that said it wouldn't include PlusOptimizer...
>>
> > chris searles
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