Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!changwoo From: changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chang P. Woo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: PC Tools Deluxe Bug (long) Summary: CPS Delete Tracking INIT is fatally buggy Keywords: buggy Message-ID: <11373@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 6 Dec 88 08:11:28 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chang P. Woo) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 46 Do all of you remember how many of us have had jolly time for bashing on Symantec for making Symantec Utilities with bugs? Well, here is a similar, quite possibly worse case of PC Tools Deluxe by Central Point Software. For those of you who are not familiar with this program, PC Tools is a utility package that is quite similar to SUM. I upgraded it from Copy II Mac (which is also put out by Central Point Software) for $18 (s/h included). I liked that program at first. The functionality wasn't nearly as good as SUM, but for $18, it was a good, cheap investment for the "safety" of my hard drive. Less than a week has passed since I got hold of that program. Now I may have to erase the most important part (undeleting files/taking map of hard drive) of the PC Tools off my hard drive. It is one heck of a BUGGY program. The story goes: A few days ago, I encountered a file that I could not erase. Whenever I put it into Trash can, my Mac gave me System Error 02. I could not figure out what was wrong, so painfully I had to globally restore my hard drive :-( Well, the very same thing happened to my friend's hard drive who also owns a copy of PC Tools Deluxe. He reinitialized his drive, and the problem was gone. To make the story short, he re-encountered the same problem yesterday and somehow suspected CPS Delete Tracking INIT (part of PC Tools) as the guilty party. Surprisingly, he was right! As soon as he got rid of CPS Delete Tracking INIT, he was able to erase the file without any problem. The system error 02 with the undeletable file just happened to me for the second time. Reminded of my friend's experience, I took the CPS Delete Tracking INIT out of my system folder. Voila, I was able to erase the problematic file without encountering any problems. CPS Delete Tracking INIT is buggy! So, if any of you are using this INIT, take it out of your system folder! Or if you really need it (for those of us who don't own SUM), you know what the guilty party is when you encounter this kind of problem. We use SUM and PC Tools for securing our precious data. If we cannot put trust in them, where CAN we? Chang Woo ---- Chang Woo HB 2932, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.EDU >>>>>>>>>>>> But I just happen to luuuuv reading disclaimers!