In article <cercue...@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger

<jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > From today's Macintouch:
> >
> > 'DiskWarrior <http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html> is a
> > respected disk repair and recovery utility, based on unique disk
> > directory repair routines, from Alsoft Inc. A long-awaited DiskWarrior 5
> > rewrite is finally available, bringing 64-bit code to handle massive
> > directories (such as those created by Apple's Time Machine) while
> > retaining support for older Macs (even PowerPC models). Other
> > improvements include the ability to run from an OS X Recovery partition;
> > delivery on a bootable flash drive with the ability to update for newer
> > OS X versions; GUID partition repair; performance enhancements; and even
> > better disk repair and file-recovery capabilities. DiskWarrior 5 is
> > priced at $119.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC or Intel) and
> > older versions are available for earlier Macs. Upgrades for existing
> > owners are $59.95.'
> >
> > Finally!
>
> Personally, I'd rather invest that $120 into backups. Not much need for
> repair when you can simply restore from backup, IMO. To each his own,
> though.

it's a helluva lot quicker to run diskwarrior and fix minor directory
corruption than restore an entire hard drive. doing that can also
prevent major corruption that would end up with downtime and a full
restore.