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plz - Version: 3.1.4, 10/8/2009 10:05PM PST
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Price - Version: 3.1.1, 2/21/2009 02:58PM PST
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WhiteDog
I expect the market will determine if iPartition is overpriced. In any case, I wouldn't use a re-partitioning app - not even Disk Utility, which can do some of this in Leopard - without backing up first. Re-partitioning a drive with data on it is perhaps the most risky operation you can perform on a hard drive. One little hiccup and all your data is toast. That said, iPartition does offer a unique feature set that may be useful to some people. Whether they can afford it is another matter. These days, with the economy in the tank, I suspect many people will be spending less on software than they did a year or two ago. iPartition's price point is definitely not in tune with the times.
$50? Are they kidding? A tad pricey for something I might use once a year! - Version: 3.1.1, 2/20/2009 09:56PM PST
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Kudrabar
Isn't this app seriously overpriced? This 2-trick pony's (Coriolis System's) other trick -- iDefrag -- is also overpriced at $35. Ignoring for a moment the very well documented argument that defragmentation is quite unnecessary on an OSX startup disk unless you're constantly adding and deleting really giant files, I will grant that iDefrag works quite well. But it too is something I might use just once or twice a year. And at a cost of $35, I'd rather defrag my Mac manually by simply backing it up to a Firewire drive (which the Finder does contiguously -- without any fragmentation), and then restoring the backed-up data back to my startup disk -- again done contiguously. When I perform the backup to Firewire drive I can either backup just my user-created files using the Finder, or I can backup the whole volume using one of the many free/donate/shareware backup apps that can clone a startup disk. The absolutely fabulous and uncrippled donationware app (they ask for a $10 donation, but app is fully functional without it) Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.3 makes it very easy (and it's a great backup app too, as every Macevangelist, blogger, and magazine dedicated to Apple products agrees). Other very good ones are Synk Backup ($25), Synk Standard or Pro, and SuperDuper! ($27.95).
If $35 for a defragging app is excessive, then $50 for on-the-fly disk partitioning is surely more excessive -- unless you're a system admin. who does a ridiculous amount of on-the-fly disk partitioning, and I've never met such a person.
If $35 for a defragging app is excessive, then $50 for on-the-fly disk partitioning is surely more excessive -- unless you're a system admin. who does a ridiculous amount of on-the-fly disk partitioning, and I've never met such a person.
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- No, we're not kidding, and it isn't "a tad pricey"
Good at what it does.. 
- Version: 3.0.1, 2/12/2008 12:00AM PST
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mkultra
Overpriced for what it does..
The author should bundle both iDefrag & iPartition for under $40.
I can't justify paying over $50 for this.
With that said, it works as advertised. I went from having 4 partitions with various OSes down to a HFS+ & NTFS partition without losing any data.
You must absolutely compact files with iDefrag prior to growing or shrinking a partition or you can kiss your partitions good bye. Mac OS X handles fragmentation fine with very little performance hit. That doesn't mean your volumes aren't fragmented.
Someone several posts below claimed he was able to change the partition map from Apple to GUID on a drive without losing data. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you will lose all data if you intend to use the drive for booting, as a bootable GUID map needs 200 MB reserved for EFI at the beginning of the disc. It may work for an external non bootable drive. I still wouldn't recommend it.
I wouldn't touch diskutil to do this with a ten ft pole. This app on the other hand is easy to use in comparison.
The author should bundle both iDefrag & iPartition for under $40.
I can't justify paying over $50 for this.
With that said, it works as advertised. I went from having 4 partitions with various OSes down to a HFS+ & NTFS partition without losing any data.
You must absolutely compact files with iDefrag prior to growing or shrinking a partition or you can kiss your partitions good bye. Mac OS X handles fragmentation fine with very little performance hit. That doesn't mean your volumes aren't fragmented.
Someone several posts below claimed he was able to change the partition map from Apple to GUID on a drive without losing data. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you will lose all data if you intend to use the drive for booting, as a bootable GUID map needs 200 MB reserved for EFI at the beginning of the disc. It may work for an external non bootable drive. I still wouldn't recommend it.
I wouldn't touch diskutil to do this with a ten ft pole. This app on the other hand is easy to use in comparison.
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Great Product and great cust. support A+ - Version: 3.0.1, 2/4/2008 12:00AM PST
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dudemanla
Great Product Does as Advertised A++++
I used this product today to resize my bootcamp partition and it didn't work at first due to lack of contig. free space on the drive. I emailed Chris from Coriolis Systems from my blackberry and told him i needed urgent help. He called me back in 5 min. from Australia and got me back on track. He told me to run the iDefrag program that came with the iPartition and run it then try to Partition the volume again. I did what he said and bingo it worked and now I have enough free space to work on my Windows partition which only had 100 megs left. I used the software on a powerPC and did the resizing on a Macbook pro.
Thanks again Coriolis :-)
Greg Helfand
Mac Tech in Los Angeles
I used this product today to resize my bootcamp partition and it didn't work at first due to lack of contig. free space on the drive. I emailed Chris from Coriolis Systems from my blackberry and told him i needed urgent help. He called me back in 5 min. from Australia and got me back on track. He told me to run the iDefrag program that came with the iPartition and run it then try to Partition the volume again. I did what he said and bingo it worked and now I have enough free space to work on my Windows partition which only had 100 megs left. I used the software on a powerPC and did the resizing on a Macbook pro.
Thanks again Coriolis :-)
Greg Helfand
Mac Tech in Los Angeles
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Great Product and great cust. support A+ - Version: 3.0.1, 2/4/2008 12:00AM PST
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dudemanla
Great Product Does as Advertised A++++
I used this product today to resize my bootcamp partition and it didn't work at first due to lack of contig. free space on the drive. I emailed Chris from Coriolis Systems from my blackberry and told him i needed urgent help. He called me back in 5 min. from Australia and got me back on track. He told me to run the iDefrag program that came with the iPartition and run it then try to Partition the volume again. I did what he said and bingo it worked and now I have enough free space to work on my Windows partition which only had 100 megs left. I used the software on a powerPC and did the resizing on a Macbook pro.
Thanks again Coriolis :-)
Greg Helfand
Mac Tech in Los Angeles
Over priced and not worth the Money - Version: 3.0.1, 1/25/2008 12:00AM PST
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Pop Tart
Got it, used it, slow and not worth the very high upgrade price for a program you would use a couple of time at the most per year.
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Erased All My Data! - Version: 3.0.1, 1/24/2008 12:00AM PST
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Sophya
I tried out this product some time ago, in 2007, I cannot possibly recommend it for any sane person; and I will tell you why.
Accepting the developer's word that this program could be used to partition, or repartition a hard drive, without having to reinitialize the disk, and without losing any of the current data on the disk, I took the plunge and attempted to do some work on a 120 GB disk which was loaded with data.
I am not stupid. I have been a Mac user since 1990, so while I may not be very Unix savvy, I do consider myself experienced in normal everyday Mac OSX operations. I carefully followed directions. Imagine, to my shock and horror, when I discovered after the program had completed its tasks, that ALL of my data on the disk, every single darn byte, was lost, including the startup system. I had to do a total reinstall of everything. Thankfully, I had a lot of my personal programs and files backed up, but not all of it, so I did lose some important things.
Well, I am sure you know where this program immediately went. Thanks, but no thanks. This is a dangerous and unreliable program, regardless of the developer's claims to the contrary.
Accepting the developer's word that this program could be used to partition, or repartition a hard drive, without having to reinitialize the disk, and without losing any of the current data on the disk, I took the plunge and attempted to do some work on a 120 GB disk which was loaded with data.
I am not stupid. I have been a Mac user since 1990, so while I may not be very Unix savvy, I do consider myself experienced in normal everyday Mac OSX operations. I carefully followed directions. Imagine, to my shock and horror, when I discovered after the program had completed its tasks, that ALL of my data on the disk, every single darn byte, was lost, including the startup system. I had to do a total reinstall of everything. Thankfully, I had a lot of my personal programs and files backed up, but not all of it, so I did lose some important things.
Well, I am sure you know where this program immediately went. Thanks, but no thanks. This is a dangerous and unreliable program, regardless of the developer's claims to the contrary.
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Great Product - Version: 3.0.1, 1/24/2008 12:00AM PST
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Emile B
Any problems ! I use iPartition either on Mac either on PC volume (250 and 500 GB). Without any file corrupted. I use it only in safe (slow) mode.
iPartition/iDefrag works as advertised - Version: 3.0.0, 1/24/2008 12:00AM PST
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fusion--2008
I defragmented and repartitioned two drives (one having Leopard and Tiger partitions, one having Leopard and Windows FAT partitions), first with iDefrag (full) followd by iPartition. This worked perfectly, albeit slowly. I lost no data and there was no problem.
I did, however, as recommended in the FAQ, do this from a bootable DVD I prepared first following the instructions rather than from the hard drive.
And I had a complete backup first - as one should always before repartitioning, and as is also recommended by the data manufacturer. In case of a problem, data loss is then impossible - only time loss.
But there was no problem.
I did, however, as recommended in the FAQ, do this from a bootable DVD I prepared first following the instructions rather than from the hard drive.
And I had a complete backup first - as one should always before repartitioning, and as is also recommended by the data manufacturer. In case of a problem, data loss is then impossible - only time loss.
But there was no problem.
