Warning: Do not run DiskWarrior or similar utilities on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[BigGuynRusty]

"DiskWarrior and other tools that modify or rebuild the directory of volumes should not be run after installing Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) until further notice or updates from the developers of these tools."
http://www.macfixit.com/

BGnR
Who wants to start the "Who Whines First" pool?

[Racer X]

I for one, am outraged!

I'm going back to OS 8.6, where all my utilities work!

[ka jowct]

Geez, is every problem with Leopard going to be dismissed as whining? Not being able to run Disk Warrior would be quite a bad thing for anyone unlucky enough to run into disk problems shortly after going Spotted.

[sekker]

I made it a policy not to upgrade to 10.4 until I had a decent working version of diskwarrior.

With Leopard and time machine, I suspect it may be less of an issue.

Nevertheless, I always recommend caution with mission-critical computers and new (or even incremental) OS updates.

I took this to be a fresh reminder to consider 10.5.0 to definitely be a work in progress.

[incognegro]

hard to imagine, given that Alsoft probably doesn't have the final version of Leopard yet.

8-)

[MacArtist]

[quote incognegro]hard to imagine, given that Alsoft probably doesn't have the final version of Leopard yet.

8-)
That's what I was thinking. I have seen other software developers already advertising their products are Leopard compatible.

[richorlin]

[quote MacArtist][quote incognegro]hard to imagine, given that Alsoft probably doesn't have the final version of Leopard yet.

8-)
That's what I was thinking. I have seen other software developers already advertising their products are Leopard compatible.
If you take a good look at those apps, you'll find that they don't manipulate the system the way Diskwarior does. If Leopard has made any changes to the underlying file system I would be wary of running any disk utility other than Apple's own Disk Utility.

[MacArtist]

Good point, richolin.

[M A V I C]

[quote ka jowct]Geez, is every problem with Leopard going to be dismissed as whining? Not being able to run Disk Warrior would be quite a bad thing for anyone unlucky enough to run into disk problems shortly after going Spotted.
One should never, ever, run apps such as DW on a system unless the software developer states that they support that system. It should be a given that DW wont run on Leopard unless they say it does.

[jdc]

im not sure about everyone else, but i havent used or bought DW -- or any other disk utilities -- in years

OS X has been pretty much 100% trouble free since i switched to Jag