Hands-On Report--Micromat released TechTool Po 4.5.3 Update

[7/27] [Updated] Hands-On Report--Micromat released TechTool Po 4.5.3 Update

MicroMat advised subscribers to its TechTool Annual Update Service (formerly known as the TechTool Pro Quarterly Service) of the completion of TechTool Pro 4.5.3 to be distributed on DVD to be mailed to them shortly. A password encoded download is immediately available.

Release Notes indicate changes include:

• Updated Volume Structures and Optimization routines.
  
• Updated Volume Journaling feature for Intel-based Macs.
  
• Integration of the TechTool Pro 4 Security Patch.
  
• Added compatibility for new Macintosh models up through June, 2007.
  
• Other minor changes and feature enhancements.

Version 4.5.3 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or greater.

We downloaded the updater and ran the updated application through its Intermediate Suite of tests and Maintenance and Optimization. Optimization of an external FireWire hard drive did not proceed in timely fashion for this report so we stopped the process, discovering in doing so that there is apparently a new, soft landing routine which invokes a warning "Stopping! Please stand by! Do not interrupt!" in the process. The disk was not damaged after doing so.

MicroMat did not indicate when the updater will be posted on its web site. [Update: it's now posted on this Micromat Web page.--ed.] [Dana Baggett]