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http://www.macnn.com/articles/02/07/24/micromat.drive/

MicroMat Drive 10 v1.1 has drive optimization

updated 05:20 pm EDT, Wed July 24, 2002

 
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MicroMat's disk repair and drive maitenance utility, Drive 10 v1.1, adds optimize and defragment routines for an OS X drive (from within Mac OS X) as well as a "host of new repair routines that allow you to find and correct drive problems that other utilities would simply abandon." [update not yet available]


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    07/24, 05:32pm | report spam | Reply |

    Awesome

    Drive 10 looks like a good product now. It really needed a defrag tool.

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    Awesome

    Drive 10 looks like a good product now. It really needed a defrag tool.

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    07/24, 05:56pm | report spam | Reply |

    c***

    Drive 10 now looks like the product that so many people paid good money for last year. Micromat shipped an expensive software product that did almost nothing (but in a very pretty way) and now wants $40 for existing users to upgrade to a version that actually does what it should. Good old Micromat, s******* their users as they have done since the days of the dreadful TechTool Pro. One company that really deserves to go down the pan, and it will.

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    Couldn't Agree More...

    This is almost as bad as that a--hole Peter Norton; charging for every stinking little meaningless, useless, insignificant upgrade.

    Buy Diskwarrior, which comes with Plus Optimzer. Simple, and simply the best.

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    Look elsewhere

    Micromat Drive 10 may do what it says but the company's support policies are terrible. That they have taken this long to offer a significant upgrade attests to their poor support. Use your money to buy from someone who deals fairly with their customers. Avoid Microsoft, er, Micromat.

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    07/24, 07:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    I agree

    Whenever I do write Micromat for TechTool Pro technical support, they respond within a reasonable time.

    However, I have been very disappointed with their lack of release updates. And whenever they do give an update, there is still lack of support for the recently released OS X version.

    I have been wondering what the use of Drive 10 was since it was released because it does nothing but to check the hard drive. This is useful for paranoid people who think their drive is going to give in any moment now. While I would like to occasionally check my drives, using the program frequently will in fact help accelerate the wear and tear.

    So now they finally release a more useful program that should have been included in the first place. Too late. How can you believe in a company that boasts of being a pioneer for the Mac, but brings out their own software for the latest Mac OS behind everybody else?

    Btw, I already sent an email to Macnn a few weeks ago regarding Micromat announcing the latest Drive 10 version which supports defrag. Why posting the news only now?

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    Patience is rewarded

    I figured when Drive 10 first came out there would be problems so I decided to wait until they got things right. Now all they have to do is include some actual file repair capabilities and I might just consider buying this. Then again Alsoft is comming out with Disk Warrior for OS X.

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    I agree

    Whenever I do write Micromat for TechTool Pro technical support, they respond within a reasonable time.

    However, I have been very disappointed with their lack of release updates. And whenever they do give an update, there is still lack of support for the recently released OS X version.

    I have been wondering what the use of Drive 10 was since it was released because it does nothing but to check the hard drive. This is useful for paranoid people who think their drive is going to give in any moment now. While I would like to occasionally check my drives, using the program frequently will in fact help accelerate the wear and tear.

    So now they finally release a more useful program that should have been included in the first place. Too late. How can you believe in a company that boasts of being a pioneer for the Mac, but brings out their own software for the latest Mac OS behind everybody else?

    Btw, I already sent an email to Macnn a few weeks ago regarding Micromat announcing the latest Drive 10 version which supports defrag. Why posting the news only now?

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    Upgrade == Bad Price...

    There is a kick in the nuts for anyone that owned Drive 10 before now: The upgrade is $40! They suckered us into buying it when it did nothing, and now are trying to get us to pay an arm and a leg when it finally does what it should have done in the first place. It seems like it could be a good program now, but I'm not forking over another $40 for it, when I already paid so much before, and it couldn't really fix anything.

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    dummy

    i feel like a real idiot here. anyone have Pogue's OS X Missing Manual? well, to make a long story short, there was some deleted material on my drive that i wanted to rescue, and page 66 of the Missing Manual said to try Drive 10. so, without really looking into it, i go out and buy the damn thing only to find that Drive 10 doesn't do recovery. now i have a piece of software (opened) that i have absolutely no use for. any suggestions, other than a lobotomy?

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