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DiskWarrior 5 - new version - worth $120?
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1653209" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>Hmmm…??? That's a good question <strong>Dave</strong> and a bit of a tough call, but I guess depends on the user and their needs. Now hows that for a cop out comment?? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I've been a DiskWarrior owner/user since about the beginning of this century, and have sure paid enough through all the upgrades, which were generally an awkward PITA to do, but I've stayed as the 4.4 version and don't really have a need to upgrade.</p><p></p><p>I'm also not doing nearly as much Mac Help as I used to do years ago and things change.</p><p></p><p>As Nick says, most other apps like CCC mainly, and the OS X itself take care of most things these days, and I think I've only run DiskWarrior maybe three times on my various volumes in the last year. And even that was probably surplus, but it's nice to see the directory rebuilt and see zero items out of place. ')</p><p></p><p>Years ago, and especially with earlier Mac OS 8 and 9 and the first 10 versions I would have said it was definitely an almost "must have" app, and was great at improving a Macs performance and fixing stuff that only it seemed able to do.</p><p></p><p>For todays Macs and recent OSs, I'd say it would be nice to have but not a "must have". Especially when most have decent backups these days, or should have, and let the Mac do its normal maintenance, that includes periodical restarts and reboots to help keep some crap stuff purged.</p><p></p><p>But I do find that the occasional use of DiskWarrior does seem to help keep all our Macs running, but I'm not about to spend the money for yet another update at this point, even at a reduced upgrade price — I don't think so. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1653209, member: 175845"] Hmmm…??? That's a good question [B]Dave[/B] and a bit of a tough call, but I guess depends on the user and their needs. Now hows that for a cop out comment?? ;) I've been a DiskWarrior owner/user since about the beginning of this century, and have sure paid enough through all the upgrades, which were generally an awkward PITA to do, but I've stayed as the 4.4 version and don't really have a need to upgrade. I'm also not doing nearly as much Mac Help as I used to do years ago and things change. As Nick says, most other apps like CCC mainly, and the OS X itself take care of most things these days, and I think I've only run DiskWarrior maybe three times on my various volumes in the last year. And even that was probably surplus, but it's nice to see the directory rebuilt and see zero items out of place. ') Years ago, and especially with earlier Mac OS 8 and 9 and the first 10 versions I would have said it was definitely an almost "must have" app, and was great at improving a Macs performance and fixing stuff that only it seemed able to do. For todays Macs and recent OSs, I'd say it would be nice to have but not a "must have". Especially when most have decent backups these days, or should have, and let the Mac do its normal maintenance, that includes periodical restarts and reboots to help keep some crap stuff purged. But I do find that the occasional use of DiskWarrior does seem to help keep all our Macs running, but I'm not about to spend the money for yet another update at this point, even at a reduced upgrade price — I don't think so. ;) :D [/QUOTE]
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