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DiskTools Pro Changelog

What's new in DiskTools Pro 3.8.3

Oct 12, 2012
  • Additions:
  • Now fully compatible with MacOS 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
  • Now code-signed for MacOS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Gate Keeper feature.
  • Improved status information for Volume Backups.
  • The SMART Alarm Status Menu now displays device location (i.e. "Internal bay 1" ) and other new information.
  • Added several new Threshold ID descriptions (mostly for new SSD devices) to both DiskTools Pro and SMART Alarm applications.
  • When performing a Volume Backup to external drives (with "Erase Destination" enabled), your Mac will no longer ask you if your want to use the drive for Time Machine after erase and remount has finished. Subsequent re-mounts to your external drives will continue to ask.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent SpeedTools from starting up properly in rare situations.
  • Fixed issue where displaying large icons could appear "bit-maped".
  • Fixed issue that would sometimes prevent the SMART Alarm Status Menu from starting at login on MacOS 10.7 and later.
  • Fixed issue where sometimes the toolbar icons in schedule tasks would not show up.
  • Fixed issue that could prevent you from moving the main window while a backup was in operation.
  • Resolved an issue that could cause a volume backup failure and/or not allow the volume backup to be bootable under rare circumstances.
  • Resolved several smaller issues throughout while running MacOS 10.7 and later.

New in DiskTools Pro 3.5.1 (Nov 9, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a possible issue where the application could stall during startup.
  • Fixed issue where some mounted volumes with non-MacOS file systems might not be shown in the volume list.
  • Fixed issue where some non-MacOS Extended volumes would be allowed to start a defragmentation run then quickly stop with an error. The issue was created in version 3.5 and caused no consequence to the selected volume.
  • Change: As of Mac OS X 10.6, Apple has changed the way that they calculate disk and file sizes. Prior to Mac OS 10.6, a Megabyte was considered to be equal to 1024 Kilobytes. With Mac OS 10.6, a Megabyte is considered to be equal to 1000 Kilobytes. This change now follows the preferred nomenclature of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and has the effect of making disk capacities and files sizes appear larger than they did when running Mac OS 10.5.x and earlier. As a result, we too have made this change starting with version 3.5.1 throughout the software when using Mac OS 10.6 and later. However, for comparative consistency across different Mac OS versions, all disk benchmarking tasks will continue to use the older calculation method (i.e. one Megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes) for the time being.
  • Additions:
  • Added ability to customize displayed information in the main volume heading.
  • Added more information to volume information listing including: Installed MacOS version and additional ownership information.
  • Added: On volumes where the file and folder counts are initially unknown (because they have a foreign file system), the file/folder display counts throughout the application will be automatically updated after performing one of the following tasks: Scanning Files for Bad Sectors, Find Broken Aliases and/or Analyzing Capacity Usage.
  • Added the ability to export Volume/Device Information and Log Information to the clipboard and/or to an RTF text file.
  • Added ability to copy the selected text from the Verify/Repair task output to clipboard.