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From: cheeser@dasys1.UUCP (Les Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Express info wanted!
Message-ID: <1603@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 23:14:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: dasys1.1603
Posted: Fri Oct  9 23:14:24 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 05:07:32 EDT
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Reply-To: cheeser@dasys1.UUCP (Les Kay)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <870002@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>Does anybody out there use "Disk Express"?  Did you notice a large improvement
>in disk speed and/or a lot more disk space?  Is is hazardous to use with 
>System/Finder 4.1/5.5 on a SE HD20?  Does it butt heads with any of your
>other applications?

I've just gotten through using it as a matter of fact - my SE HD20 has
only about 4 meg free space on it - disk express was used to:

1) check disk integrity
2) compact the desktop (file)
3) optimize and prioritze file (scrunch and put applications first)
4) zero (actually erase) unused blocks

The disk went utterly berserk for about 1 hour and 12 minutes, after which 
time the program reported about 374k freed up (that is right, three
hundred and fourty-seven killobytes).  Rebooting the disk, a 1 minute long
process (recess?) normally, now takes 12 seconds.  Files load faster, but
this is less noticeable.

Did it clobber anything?  Well, the general file - one of the control
panel options - was flat out gone.  FastKeys (the beta version of QuickKeys)
was gone along with the macros (ouch) and the file menuclock no longer worked.

As I have some directories with over 200 files on them, and A LOT of stuff
overall on the drive - I'd say this was about as good as could be expected
short of perfection.  None of the other files were damaged in any way, the 
system runs like a fiend again.

The system/finder combo was 5.5/4.1, and it also worked on a system using
6.02b/4.2b10(??not sure about that last one - the current multifinder
release).

I do not own this program myself, I borrowed it from my sister (manual and
original - not pirating)...She has used this on her Mac II with HD40 with
no problems.  

Do I recommend it?  I'm going to buy my own copy - what do you think?!

cheeser

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