Choose which drives to save your Protection Files on to and click OK to return you to the main window. Select which volume you want to protect and a secondary window will open. If you tend to leave your machine running 24/7 then select an update time when the system isn’t doing anything else say like 3 am. We recommend you don’t have it update the Protection Files at any other time other than Login. From here you can setup which drives will be protected as well as which drives you save these backup directory files to and it is well worth saving them to several other drives on your system to increase your Recovery chances. The Protection works by saving copies of each drives Directory files in TechTool’s own format so that the Recover Tool (in the Tools section) stands a much greater chance of recovering lost files or even the entire drive. Select Protection Setup and click on the arrow button. To do this go into the Safety section by clicking on the ‘Safety’ button in the Toolbar across the top of the main TechTool window. of 7 © One Stop Digital (OSD) Ltd 2005įor TechTool to work well and in the future to be able to recover Files and Drives it is very important to set up the Protection and Diagnostics sections correctly. Optimising drives (like Norton Speed Disk) Prevention & Diagnostics setup (like Norton Filesaver) ![]() In this guide we are going to concentrate on 3 areas of TechTool Pro This should not be instead of backups but as well as! Safety - Where you can set up protection & Diagnostics checks. Do not go in here unless you really know what you are doing. Tools - A selection of tools for the advanced user. Performance - This section helps you defragment & optimise the drive (volume) directories and files. Tests - Here you can choose to do individual tests and choose which drives to test as well. TechTool Pro has a main window with a common Toolbar across the top which is divided into 5 groupings and a lower section which varies according to which section you are in.:- Suites - Preset combinations of tests of hardware, drives and files. It can check all the hardware as well as your drives and the files on them. TechTool Pro has a range of features to keep you Mac running sweetly. ![]() ![]() We would recommend all Mac OS X users should have TechTool Pro running on their machines and to remove Norton Utilities as it can do more damage than good. However Symantec have discontinued support of Norton Utilities for Mac OS X and TechTool Pro takes it place well. TechTool Pro 4 is similar to Norton Utilities in its features. This guide covers some of the basic operations of Micromat’s TechTool Pro v4.
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