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Drive Genius - 2.1.1

Storage management: maintain, manage, optimize.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.1.1
Release Date:	2009-04-16
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	5,288
Downloads (all versions):	83,991
Price:	$99.00

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Product Description:

Maintain, Manage and Optimize your Hard Drive
Is your computer running slower? Drive Genius 2 is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. Disk defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!* *Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple Computer

Drive Genius has established itself as THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. The new Drive Genius 2 is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius. Improvements have been made to speed and overall performance in the new version. One of the most noticeable and eye catching changes is the all-new user interface. Drive Genius 2 makes hard maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy.

What's new in this version:

Enhanced Duplicate tool has an option to verify the destination of whole-drive copies. In addition, source bad blocks can be skipped if found during a whole-drive copy.
Increased performance and reliability of Defrag.
Bug Fix: spurious "test aborted by disk" S.M.A.R.T. warnings in 10.5.x
Bug Fix: after shredding a volume, a new volume would always be created as "Untitled" instead of using the previous volume name.
Bug Fix: the tooltip displayed for duplicate files in DriveSlim contained an invalid path to the original file when displaying results from the boot volume.
Bug Fix: crash during launch if information about installed languages could not be obtained (10.4.x/PPC only).
Bug Fix: Adobe and Microsoft application updates would fail if language bundles were removed or their binaries trimmed; these are now excluded from the DriveSlimsearch results.
Other bug fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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It's a bit flaky these days!! - Version: 2.1.1, 6/20/2009 01:43AM PST

lenwhyte

I don't know what's happened, but DG used to be super reliable. Nowadays, on my PMacG5 dual 1.8Ghz 3GB machine, it takes several launch attempts before it survives. Then, when it resizes, it doesn't properly resize the filesystem. All a bit troubling. Anybody else having this bother?

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An excelellent time-saver, with outstanding support - Version: 2.1.1, 5/8/2009 08:44AM PST

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pablohenryguzman

I've found the tech support for Drive Genius to be consistently outstanding.

My favorite aspect of the software is that it makes it relatively easy to nondestructively repartition Mac drives, and saves a lot of time versus reformatting entire drives.

DRIVE GENIUS 2.1.1 MAKES MAINTENANCE SOOOOOO SLICK! - Version: 2.1.1, 4/30/2009 06:49PM PST

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MICHAEL GOODROE

Doing 96K ProTools LE 8.1 pushes my Mac to it's limits. I need all the maintenance done and frequently or I'll be sorry. This Quartz Extreme presentation; pure cosmetics and why shouldn't there be visual art in a computer maintenance program this super effective? Look for a deal. You can find it half price easy! Somebody is really thinking.