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Comparison to Disk Warrior functionality

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Contributed by: Xiaopangzi Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 04:30 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: YES

I've loved iDefrag ever since I purchased it, as described in my previous commentary.

Now that an upgraded version of Disk Warrior has finally been released, I'm wondering whether it can repair anything that iDefrag cannot, when the latter will replace your directory with a newly created compact directory after defragmentation just as Disk Warrior does without any file allocation optimization. If so, I'll consider upgrading my copy of Disk Warrior but will stick with iDefrag for the disk optimization that I value. The directory is not the only thing that needs to be optimized, no matter what Apple claims.

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Not a repair tool - Alastair_Houghton_882

iDefrag isn't a disk repair tool; it isn't designed to be used on disks that are in an inconsistent state, unlike DiskWarrior.

iDefrag does have a "Check for Errors" function, but this works basically the same way that Disk Utility does—by executing the fsck_hfs tool that comes with Mac OS X—and is really provided as a convenience rather than as a dedicated disk repair application.

Basically, if you want to repair a disk, and Disk Utility (or iDefrag's "Check for Errors" option, or fsck_hfs from the command line) can't do it, then DiskWarrior is probably your best bet.

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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 10:02 AM PST