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To NORTON or not to NORTON???
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1931616" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>To be fair, many years ago Norton Utilities was the premier hard drive repair utility software for the Macintosh. (Much like Disk Warrior was later.) However, in 1990 Symantec purchased Norton, Peter Norton was pushed entirely out of the picture, and Norton products soon became known for their ability to destroy your hard drive as likely as fix it.</p><p></p><p>At the present point in time, both NU and DW are still available, but they are anachronisms. Apple never released the full specifications for APFS, their modern hard drive format, so no third party hard drive repair utility works to repair Directory problems with the Mac.</p><p></p><p>Coincidentally, Apple just updated the Mac's included Disk Utility/First Aid so that it is much more effective at repairing APFS disks:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/22/close-but-still-no-banana-disk-utility-22-6/" target="_blank">https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/22/close-but-still-no-banana-disk-utility-22-6/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1931616, member: 190607"] To be fair, many years ago Norton Utilities was the premier hard drive repair utility software for the Macintosh. (Much like Disk Warrior was later.) However, in 1990 Symantec purchased Norton, Peter Norton was pushed entirely out of the picture, and Norton products soon became known for their ability to destroy your hard drive as likely as fix it. At the present point in time, both NU and DW are still available, but they are anachronisms. Apple never released the full specifications for APFS, their modern hard drive format, so no third party hard drive repair utility works to repair Directory problems with the Mac. Coincidentally, Apple just updated the Mac's included Disk Utility/First Aid so that it is much more effective at repairing APFS disks: [URL code="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/22/close-but-still-no-banana-disk-utility-22-6/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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