Micromat TechTool Pro 4 (Mac)
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Software Reviews of Micromat TechTool Pro 4 (Mac)
Customer Review: Nice product to have
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a big proponent of routine maintenance and this is the only tool I use to keep my iBook in check. Easy to use.Customer Review: Frustration Guaranteed
Summary: 1 Stars
After you use the program's CD as your startup, it's difficult to get back to your regular startup. The manual says if you start from the CD by holding down the "C" key, the startup preference isn't changed. Not true on my Mac. The manual suggests holding down the mouse button: sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The manual has several other suggestions, none of which are reliable. And every time you fail, you have to wait forever (about 10 minutes) for the program to boot from the CD before you can try something else. Too much hassle. I am going to throw the program away.Customer Review: mac maintaince
Summary: 2 Stars
Techtool pro 4 took 2 hours to load. Without asking it defraged my hard drive so it could be all in one block. After that I could not get my iMac Intel Core 2 Duo running OS 10.4.9 to start: "Can't find start up file". I tried all the suggestions from Dr. Mac including single user and the original OSX software, all to no avail. At the shop they ran DiskWarrior which found and replaced the start up file. $80 for TechTool and $45 for repair and I didn't even have a problem in the first place. After that TehcTool worked fine, but I was not impressed.Customer Review: TTP 4.5.1: Indispensable Mac app
Summary: 5 Stars
If you own a Mac, you're foolish to not invest in 2 fixit apps, TTP and DiskWarrior (DW's unfortunately not yet available for Intel Macs, but should be, soon). TTP does everything you need to do, and does it reliably. It also has an "eDrive" feature, a bootable 2nd volume on your drive containing what you need to fix things (necessary because a volume can't fix itself), which is immediately available when you need it. (DW "only" rebuilds the directory, but that is arguably the most important single thing which sometimes needs fixing. The reason you should have both utilities is that sometimes one of them can fix the directory when the other can't, since they use different approaches. Actually, a Mac owner already owns a fixit utility packaged with the OS, DiskUtility. While the weakest of the three, it, too, is sometimes useful for repair.)
I can't agree with the criticism I've read in the other reviews. If the version of TTP is appropriate to the version of the Mac OS, TTP works as advertised. If the user has inadvertantly used the wrong version, then it's like putting diesel fuel into a gasoline engine. The blame for that mistake can hardly be laid on Micromat's doorstep. I've used TechTool on many different Macs since its beginnings, and it has never caused me a single problem, but it has averted or corrected a number of them.
Customer Review: Program from Hell!
Summary: 1 Stars
If you are running Mac OS Tiger on a G4 Mac, DO NOT BUY this product!!!!
To use it effectively, you'll need to create an "e-drive" which is a partition of your drive. Doing this in Tiger wipes out the startup file and generally messes things up. You'll then have to get the Disk Utility that came with your system to repair the file before you can run your computer again!!
And don't count on Support to be much help. They talk nice, just like this program looks nice, but they'll just keep you on the line (your nickel!) and accomplish little.
Repeat: DO NOT BUY!!!!!