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Customer Reviews of Norton Utilities 7.0

Doesn't work on Panther!
I bought this when I was running OS 9.2 and had good results, but was disappointed to learn that it no longer worked when I upgraded to OSX Panther because it specifically said that it ran on OSX. However, this should be a moot point for anyone currently running Panther since Norton 8.0 is now available.

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Some words about Symantec rebates
If you are thinking about buying norton software simply because they are free after rebates, then reconsider it. Although it's well known Symantec makes reliable softwares, When we talk about their rebates, they are liars. Yes, liars ¨Cthey really deserve this. Based on my personal experience, I even think theirs are worse than the notorious I/O Magic's (aka, Hi-Val, Digital research). I bought several Norton softwares during last December, and submitted the upgrade rebates right away with required items, Guess what, until today I got only one of them, and it has been almost 6 months. I guess they are testing my memory but unfortunately I kept a good record of every rebate I submitted. That's what we should do if we are going to buy Symantec softwares with rebates involved, although the best thing I would recommend is to avoid as long as you can.

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Norton Utilities
I have been a long-time user of Norton Utilities for Mac but had held off purchasing Norton Utilities 7.0 for OSX because of some negative reviews regarding its compatability with newer versions of OSX. Recently, I bought the program (version 7.02), installed it, updated it on OSX 10.2.6, and used it to repair several disks on my powerbook G4 (800 MHz, Version 2.1, 55.9 Gb drive) and a Western Digital 1394 45 Gb Firewire Hard drive. Several observations:
? Installation. I downloaded the program with Safari 1.0 beta2. Note that the download link did not activate the automatic download and I got hexbin text showing in a browser window. The solution to this is to hold the ctrl button and select the download link to disk. The file downloaded rapidly (286 Kbyte per second through an Airport connected to a cable modem) and I installed it with no difficulty.
? Update. When I rebooted the computer as recommended, a window appeared indicating that Norton Utilities had detected a new OSX operating system and indicated that I update the program. I opened up the program and used the update feature to update all components of the program. This went without a hitch. Interestingly, a window appeared when I rebooted, saying that it detected a new operating system even after I had updated all the components. Using the software update feature of the program showed that there were no new updates. There was a box in the notification window that allowed you to disable that notification.
? Repairing external firewire disk. I was able to use Norton disk doctor to fix the firewire disk with no difficulty. It identified and fixed a number of problems with the disk that Disk Warrior 3.0 did not detect and could not fix. I ran Norton Utilities in the background while I was doing other things with the system. It worked well. It identified a number of file and disk errors that I had not seen before using any program.
? Repairing disk partitions. My internal drive has three partitions. One contains my OSX system, another contained my OS9 system that the OSX uses as its classic system, and the third contains an OSX system that I use for repairing the other partitions. While booted on the first partition, Norton Utilities 7.02 was able to repair the third partition. Expectedly, Norton was unable to dismount the first two partitions because it was using files on those partitions. However, I was able to boot up on the third partition and repair the first two partitions. Again, I was able to repair the other partitions in the background while using the OSX system, including surfing the web and stuffing files on the external drive.
? Speed Disk. I used the Speed Disk feature to defragment and optimize the external hard drive and the other partitions. It was able to do this in the background. Because the disk partition that it was working on is dismounted, there is no danger that you would use any files on that partition while it was working on it. This is very convenient. The old Norton Utilities will not allow you to do anything on your computer while it was repairing or speed disking a partition or an external drive. There is no decrease in the response of the computer to typing, surfing, or other activities while it was doing Speed Disk.

So, while the program is not perfect, it did everything that it was supposed to do. Best of all, I can use the program to repair and defragment external disks and other partitions of my main disk drive in the background while I do other work. It was able to identify OSX file problems on the disks that other programs did not. It is well worth the purchase price.