What can you defrag with a 100 mb crippled demo-? - Deephouse

I'm curious what sort of trial version you would suggest for the developer.

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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 02:17 AM PST

What can you defrag with a 100 mb crippled demo-? - Gennx30

im curious as to why they bother to offer the demo as such-what would you demo it on?

I think a ONE TIME defrag, and then self-destruct is the only answer-or
a 'before and after' graph of your drive might work, but you wouldnt be able to FEEL if it made a difference in speed.

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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 11:40 PM PST

Answer: a disk image - Alastair_Houghton_882

You can make disk images in Disk Utility that are within the restricted size limit. And you can use them to test the program as many times as you like; there's no time limit or any other similar thing.

We obviously can't do a "one-time" type restriction, because six months down the line, some people will legitimately want to re-evaluate the software, while other people would just use that as an opportunity to use it for free without ever paying.

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Wednesday, January 09 2008 @ 08:13 AM PST

Answer: a disk image - gennx

Demo-ing a 100mb .dmg file is not going to show me how much faster my HD will run after using product...since my HD is 180GigaBytes
I dunno- other companies seem to make it work

if it self-destructs after one full defrag, it will be useless. If the product is ACTUALLY as necessary for the most efficient and speedy use of HD space, as claimed, then the Demo buyers HD will soon need a new defrag-and when they have seen that it does what it clams-will likely buy it.
Dont be so paranoid.
Charge $1.00 to try it, or an online defrag (if that is possible) so you will have a record of who you can or cannot send a demo to with temp key or whatever. Through PP of Kashi.(?)
But seeing if you get a speed bump off a 100mb demo .dmg file is silly,
unless im missing something here

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Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

What can you defrag with a 100 mb crippled demo-? - Amavida

* The developers cant make a version that works with the CURRENT version of Mac OS (10.5)

* In any event its a worthless throwback to the Windoze world.

You dont need it.
Don't waste any further time.

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Sunday, December 30 2007 @ 07:38 PM PST

Wrong - Alastair_Houghton_882

Sorry Amavida, but your remarks are both pointless and wrong.

First off, the problem we're seeing with Leopard is a problem with Leopard, not a problem with our software. It potentially affects any application that performs raw disk accesses; it just so happens that our applications are good at triggering it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t trigger the bug in other ways. However, since paying customers get a utility to make a bootable CD/DVD (which contains a version of 10.4, not 10.5), and since the software isn’t incompatible with the 10.5 filesystem changes, there’s no actual problem here… you just need to run from CD/DVD.

Second, running iDefrag's Full Defrag or Optimize routines on a typical Mac does result in a noticeable speed-up. You wouldn’t want to do it regularly, because it would take far more time than you’d save, but it certainly is useful.

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Wednesday, January 09 2008 @ 08:20 AM PST