TTP 4.0.6 G3 Danger!

For years I had purchased and used numerous MicroMat products and thought that they were the "cats meow". I should have listened those who indicated just to use MacJanitor and Apple's Disk Utility to repair the permissions for routine maintenance and my Blue and white 400mHz G3 would still be up and running Mac OS X 10.4.2. It seems that the only problems encountered running this OS on the G3 were caused by TTP 4.0.1 through TTP 4.0.6!

TTP 4.0.4 installed on the G3 would not upgrade to TTP 4.0.5 because, MictroMat techs told me, that the eDrive whichTTP 4 now installs needs more disk space than the amount the original CD of TTP 4.0.1 partitioned off on installation of the eDrive. The TTP 4.0.1 CD also booted up on OS 10.2, which is not compatible with OS 10.4.

The amount of free HD space required for TTP 4.0.5 was at lease 4GB. My DiskSpace program indicated that I had 4.5GB of free disk space back when the TTP 4.0.5 update arrived.

The MicroMat rep indicated that I needed a new updated TTP 4 CD which had both the disk boot OS and the TTP4 program updated. The updated TTP 4.0.6 CD cost me an additional $31.84 and was to arrive in the first week of October. It arrived a week later than promised.

My G3 was running fine on the arrival of the CD. MacJanitor and Apple's Disk Utility worked well and there were no problems until I booted from the TTP 4.0.6 CD. After using the install program to uninstall the old TTP4 (which did not remove the old eDrive) and going through their complete intense battery of tests, with the CD being used to remove the old eDrive and to reinstall the new eDrive. TTP 4.0.6 indicated a successful installation.

Now the G3 will not boot from its HD. The Apple appears and the loading process wheel continues spinning, and spinning, and spinning....only to be halted by pressing the emergency reset button. Apple's First Aid Disk Utility indicates that there is now an "Invalid B-Tree Header" that "cannot be repaired". This is written in red!

I have encountered no problems at all running Mac OS X 10.4.2 until putting TTP 4 to use.

This review is being written on my second computer, a G4 Powerbook, that I am keeping as far from TTP4 as possible!

G3 Danger! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK with OS 10.4.2 on a G3!

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