Alsoft DiskWarrior - 2.0 Instruction Manual

Note: DiskShield will only notify you of one Minor problem on a particular disk per hour, 
and will not notify you of any encountered Minor problems on a disk if it has already alerted 
you to a Serious problem for the same disk. This is because it is possible that you will 
encounter the same Minor problem repeatedly and it is assumed that you will run 
DiskWarrior as soon as possible to fix the problem.

The second classification of problem is Serious, and this classification actually 
encompasses two kinds of problems that equal in severity but differ in how you will 
need to respond to them. The first kind is where damage already exists in your 
directory that is so severe that portions of your directory are unrecognizable as such. 
In this case you should run DiskWarrior immediately to rebuild your directory. The 
second kind is when DiskWarrior has stopped an attempt by a program to write data 
to your directory that is invalid and that would have caused a loss of files and/or 
folders. When this occurs, your ultimate response will depend upon the program that 
caused the error and what you were attempting to do at the time. For example, if you 
were using a disk editor to modify your directory, you will probably ignore the error 
and make an exception for the disk editor (refer to Turn off protection for these 
applications on page 52 in this chapter). On the other hand, if the error was caused 
by your Web browser while you were simply browsing the Web, you might want to 
consider updating or replacing that program.

To be notified immediately by an alert of a Serious problem, select the Show alert radio 
button. To be notified via the Flash Apple menu option, select the Flash Apple menu 
radio button. This flashing icon is your cue to open the DiskWarrior application to 
display a message describing the error encountered.

Note: DiskShield will only notify you of one Serious problem on a particular disk per hour. 
This is because it is possible that you will encounter the same Serious problem repeatedly 
and it is assumed that you will run DiskWarrior immediately to fix the problem.

While in most cases you will not notice any performance effects by having DiskShield 
protection turned on, there are some instances where you may wish to sacrifice some 
safety for performance. For instance, if you copy large numbers of smaller files, delete 
large numbers of small files, or modify the attributes of a large number of small files, 
you may wish to check the Bulk file operations are Faster option. This makes 
DiskWarrior update the directory on disk less frequently for better performance, while