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TechTool Pro

TechTool Pro

hardware/software diagnostic tool

Version:  4.6.2

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DIY - Tool... have to do everything myself

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: gryphonent Wednesday, March 02 2005 @ 02:11 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

I'm a registered user and have reported issues with Tech Tool since installing version 4 some 12 months ago. The tool looks good on the surface, sports many features... but it us absolutely useless. The disk optimizer and defrag feature corrupted my harddrive and only Disk Warrior, which I purchased due to that incident, was able to bring my files back. I have since tried the optimizing and defrag feature again, but I'm not happy with it: it's very slow, and potentially harmful. I also wrote various times to Tech Support that merely reporting about the existence if a corrupted file is not what I expect from a repair tool. Tech Tool states that there is no way to fix a corrupted file, however, it also does nothing to delete it (or give the user an option to do so). On one occasion I had an invisible info.plist file in the preferences folder... know how many there are??? How difficult it is to find the corrupted one yourself???

To sum up: Tech Tool 4 was a waste of money. Updates are sporadic and I have since switched to Disk Warrior and iDefrag. Great tools that not only claim to do the job, but get it done. Better. Faster, Safer.   
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If It Makes You Feel Better... - alphasubzero949

TechTool killed my hard drive not once, but twice. Completely corrupted the directory structure while using the eDrive in both instances. The second time around I bought DW and even it could not bring my files back. Thankfully I backed up so all was not lost.

The only reason why I bought TT was because at the time it was the only utility compatible with Panther. I guess I should have waited.

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Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 11:20 AM PDT