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September 23, 2006

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Another reason to not use Norton Disk Doctor

Posted Sep. 23, ’06, 6:20 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Tips

Symantec Back when I was rocking a Quadra 660av with System 7.1, Norton Utilities (and Norton Disk Doctor in particular) was a great way to maintain your system. In the years since, its functionality has gotten less and less reliable. They’ve even killed the product.

I think I can safely now say that it’s dangerous to leave installed:

iTunes for Macintosh cannot launch after using Norton Disk Doctor.

Norton Disk Doctor reports the following:

A major error was found in the file listed below. The BSD mode for the symbolic link is incorrect. Symbolic links are special files similar to aliases. (15, 20)

HARD DRIVEA:Applications:/iTunes.app:Contents: Frameworks:iPodUpdater.framework:Versions:A:iPodUpdater

Great. Now it’s breaking iTunes. Let’s get rid of it from our systems.


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