![]() Repairing a directory can make files and partitions reappear, improve performance, and even recoup disk space. ![]() (Opens in a new window) Read Our CleverFiles Disk Drill Pro (for Mac) Review While Prosoft Data Rescue 4 ($99.00 at Prosoft Engineering, Inc.) (Opens in a new window) can scan disks to recover lost or deleted files, DiskWarrior is unrivaled in its ability to repair and rebuild the Mac directory. That includes utilities from Apple, whose Disk Utility may be suitable for basic maintenance and partition, but remains ill-prepared to repair badly damaged directories that result in kernel panics and boot failures. While Alsoft has updated the utility and adopted flash storage over the past 18 years, DiskWarrior continues to perform maintenance and recovery tasks that no other utility can do. I've been using the $119 DiskWarrior to perform routine maintenance and to resurrect defunct Macs since it shipped on a CD. In fact, Alsoft DiskWarrior is one of the best utilities you can buy for your Mac. Today, the utility is no less useful for a swivel-neck iMac or a MacBook with a solid-state drive (SSD). In fact, that isn't entirely true: Apple once bundled the third-party utility with AppleCare.
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