So I ran Norton on OS X
Ran Norton (not the beta) on my OS X drive.
Don't do it.
My clock is now stuck in military mode - 1PM = 13:00.
A bunch of stuff is now visible in the "MacHD" finder window - stuff like Mach, Mach Sys, DS_Store, a "Dev" alias and some other junk.
I think it happened because Norton took the "." (periods) off the beginning of the filenames.
Oh, and I had to create a new user/re-register when I logged back in. Deleted the new user though, because my other two user accounts were there.
Say, anyone know how to get those files to be invisible again? Can you install X 10.1 over 10.1.2?
Sheesh, what was I thinking?
Don't do it.
My clock is now stuck in military mode - 1PM = 13:00.
A bunch of stuff is now visible in the "MacHD" finder window - stuff like Mach, Mach Sys, DS_Store, a "Dev" alias and some other junk.
I think it happened because Norton took the "." (periods) off the beginning of the filenames.
Oh, and I had to create a new user/re-register when I logged back in. Deleted the new user though, because my other two user accounts were there.
Say, anyone know how to get those files to be invisible again? Can you install X 10.1 over 10.1.2?
Sheesh, what was I thinking?
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All Files got moved to the root directory.
The System file, various web pages, gifs, fron the browser cache, apple help guides.. every file was just sitting in the HD window.
I think it was like 16,000 files.
I bought a biiger HD and started over.
MSKR
don´t use old versions on new OSes
If version "x" of the HD Util says it runs with OS "y" wait at the very least for version x.2.
bye.
<strong>I've used Norton since OS X was released and have had no problems because of it. By the way I did have the military clock problem ( but, not after using Norton. It was after updating to 10.1.2 ). You can fix this by opening the System Preferences, clicking on International, and the time tab. I know it's a dumb place to put this but, you can make changes there.
That isn't a dump place at all, in fact the 24 hour format is very common worldwide. I don't even understand why some countries use this AM/PM stuff - this is like giving september a number like 2 PMY (post mid year)
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There was no important data on it.
I just wanted to see what would happen (famous last words).
One of these days I'll see what happens if I try to reinstall OS X 10.1 over 10.1.2. Will the two user settings hold up? Any guesses?
And thanks for the military time thing - I could've sworn I'd seen that somewhere before. Just didn't think to look in "international". Although it does make sense in an odd international way.
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<strong>A bunch of stuff is now visible in the "MacHD" finder window - stuff like Mach, Mach Sys, DS_Store, a "Dev" alias and some other junk.
I think it happened because Norton took the "." (periods) off the beginning of the filenames.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'd love to know why it did that.
And I really hope it doesn't do that in OS 9.
Looks like I'll stick with fsck for a while longer.
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I'd love to know why it did that.
And I really hope it doesn't do that in OS 9.
Looks like I'll stick with fsck for a while longer.</strong><hr></blockquote>
did the same thing to me a couple months ago. No longer use a disk utility as a result
<strong>I'd love to know why it did that.</strong><hr></blockquote>
IIRC you can set the Prefs that it asks you before if you wan´t to "fix" Files beginning with "." rather than fixing them without asking.
bye.
<strong>Aye, I never have Norton fix anything without first prompting me with a dialog box. And don't run anything earlier than Norton 6.0 (SystemWorks 1.0) on an OS X volume!</strong><hr></blockquote>
according to symantec's website, you shouldn't use anything earlier than 6.0.2 on OSX drives. FWIW
Diskwarrior
It projected a duration of 700 minutes! And that's progress bar time so it really probably meant 3x as long.
BTW, you WILL have the problem of Norton removing the "." from files unless you use the latest 6.03! I ran 6.0 once and it reverted all folders with a ".". Ever since 6.03 (maybe even .02, I dont know) it addresses these issues correctly. I have had no problems with fixing and analyzing an HD with OS X on it using 6.03. Just use the "Instant Update" (or whatever its called) to update it from the net. Pretty nifty, like Software Update from Apple. It updates the Norton Shared Library in the extensions folder and a couple other apps.
Also if you use the Speed Disk utility (love it) use the OS X version 4 profile thats floating around on the net. I have it too and can post it on my iDisk if anyone wants it.