Using Onyx

[montreal]

...yes ! Me again...

I ve been told to use that soft to clean and do the maintenance of my internal drive ...

When finishing to analyse the structure of my drive the soft say i should make repairs.... Then he asked me to start the system with the installation DVD ...

Is it a safe process to use that cd and to make the repairs onyx Will then ask me to do considering i dont want to lose any data and compatibility in relation with my Pro Tools recordings sessions ... ?

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by montreal

Is it a safe process to use that cd and to make the repairs onyx Will then ask me to do considering i dont want to lose any data and compatibility in relation with my Pro Tools recordings sessions ... ?

Of course. As long as you have a backup. You should have a backup anyway.

When you get that kind of a result when running Onyx to diagnose, it's something you should take very seriously. Onyx has a good reputation, I would trust it. (Make shure you have the right version for your OS.) You could consider running disktools first and see what it says. Maybe disktools can repair it too.

[montreal]

ok thanks ben

[aka21stCentury]

I've been using Onyx for years. It is outdated. Permissions change as per Apple new sercurity updates... don't use it except for cleaning cache, web, etc., don't repair permissions with it. You can do the maintenance stuff though. Daily, Weekly, Monthly.

Alsoft: Diskwarrior 4.2 -- fix your drives if you see an error only with Diskwarrior. If a 'damaged file' appears after DW rebuilds your drive, ALWAYS preview the rebuilt disk, copy over the entire folder 'damaged folder' to firewire or a Fat 32 sandisk cruzer. In my case all the files except two were perfect (those others had ancient mac os resource forks removed by transfering with a Fat 32 thumb drive).

ONLY THEN -- click rebuild. This way you will not lose any data. It will still remain in folders, just as before... then copy them back to your rebuilt drive.

Pro Toolers have been using Diskwarrior since Pro Tools 5.0 on the Mac
first came out.


Alternatively if Disk Utility under Utility Folder cannot fix it, Onyx is usually outdated, will not fix it either. May cause more problems rebuilding permissions. Apple changed from case insensitive to case sensitive HFS+... try Disk Utility first (go --> Utilities/Disk Utility

Onyx was good, but not for repairing permissions. S.M.A.R.T status if it finds an error (I have never ever seen an error) I would go with Diskwarrior $89 from www.alsoft.com -- email them with your exact model Macintosh so you have the proper boot DVD -- it contains a boot rom from Apple that will boot your system from the DVD (or in some cases they sell a special CD for older PPC tiger 10.4.11 systems).

[montreal]

god you scared me i was about to repair with it....?

any other opinions here ?

[montreal]

nobody ?

[montreal]

Originally Posted by aka21stCentury

I've been using Onyx for years. It is outdated. Permissions change as per Apple new sercurity updates... don't use it except for cleaning cache, web, etc., don't repair permissions with it. You can do the maintenance stuff though. Daily, Weekly, Monthly.

Alsoft: Diskwarrior 4.2 -- fix your drives if you see an error only with Diskwarrior. If a 'damaged file' appears after DW rebuilds your drive, ALWAYS preview the rebuilt disk, copy over the entire folder 'damaged folder' to firewire or a Fat 32 sandisk cruzer. In my case all the files except two were perfect (those others had ancient mac os resource forks removed by transfering with a Fat 32 thumb drive).

ONLY THEN -- click rebuild. This way you will not lose any data. It will still remain in folders, just as before... then copy them back to your rebuilt drive.

Pro Toolers have been using Diskwarrior since Pro Tools 5.0 on the Mac
first came out.


Alternatively if Disk Utility under Utility Folder cannot fix it, Onyx is usually outdated, will not fix it either. May cause more problems rebuilding permissions. Apple changed from case insensitive to case sensitive HFS+... try Disk Utility first (go --> Utilities/Disk Utility

Onyx was good, but not for repairing permissions. S.M.A.R.T status if it finds an error (I have never ever seen an error) I would go with Diskwarrior $89 from www.alsoft.com -- email them with your exact model Macintosh so you have the proper boot DVD -- it contains a boot rom from Apple that will boot your system from the DVD (or in some cases they sell a special CD for older PPC tiger 10.4.11 systems).

im stucked now, so if someone can tell me if i can afford some repairs without taking the risk to lose any piece of data relative to my PT sessions he s welcome...

[montreal]

Originally Posted by montreal

im stucked now, so if someone can tell me if i can afford some repairs without taking the risk to lose any piece of data relative to my PT sessions he s welcome...

ok so nobody have an opinion on all that ?