The Norton Utilities for Macintosh

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• Norton Disk Doctor, a repair utility designed to diagnose and repair damaged disks or hard disks. This utility searches disks for bad areas or sectors, checks for system software damage or corruption, and searches for any problem that might cause hard disk or system crashes. In many cases, Norton Disk Doctor can repair common software problems it encounters during its search.

• Norton Backup offers an automated customizable backup for files on your hard disk or over a network.

• Norton Disk Editor enables you to view and edit a disk's resources (which in many cases contain invisible files, like the desktop file). This tool is used by professionals and technicians for repairing damaged or corrupted files.

• Norton Encrypt enables you to protect sensitive files by using an encryption algorithm to scramble the contents of a selected file and attach password protection to these files. To be able to read the files, you must enter the secret password. Encryption is popular for sending sensitive files across a modem or network that you don't want to be read by anyone without the proper password.

• Floppier is designed to quickly and easily copy the contents of one disk to a number of disks. An example would be a users group that offers a disk-of-the-month full with shareware titles. They can create a master disk, and Floppier copies that disk onto disks inserted into the disk drive. It even initializes unformatted disks if necessary during the copying sequence.

• Speed Disk is a utility program that enables you to optimize your hard disk by defragmenting it. The information on your hard disk becomes fragmented into various locations on your hard disk. This slows the access speed of your hard disk as it searches through your disk to find requested information. Speed Disk defragments this information and puts the most frequently used information nearest the drive heads, and the less frequently used files toward the back. By making these files easily available to the hard disk, your hard disk's speed is enhanced.

• Unerase is a utility designed to enable you to recover files that you have deleted from your hard drive, often including "trashed" files. When you empty the Trash, the filename is removed from the directory as a visible file, but the file still exists on the hard disk until another file is written over it. If that file hasn't been overwritten, in most cases it can be recovered. If the file has been overwritten, it cannot be recovered. So the sooner you try to recover a trashed file, the better your chances are that it hasn't been overwritten.

• Volume Recover is used when a disk is so badly damaged that you want to recover as much information as possible off the disk and store the contents of the volume on another disk before attempting to repair or reinitialize the damaged disk. If you have a severe hard disk crash, recovering the data and reinitializing the damaged disk is often your only choice.

• Wipe Info makes certain that sensitive data deleted from a disk is in fact erased from the disk and irretrievable by using recovery software. Wipe Info deletes the file and writes over it to ensure that the file is not only erased from the disk's directory, but is erased from the disk as well. This is a necessary precaution when erasing sensitive files because when you empty the Trash, the filename is removed from the disk's directory, but the file remains on the hard disk until another file is written over it. This file can be recovered by using Unerase or another recovery utility.

• Disk Light is a utility that flashes an icon of the active disk in the upper corner of the menu bar anytime that anytime a disk is active. This helps you determine if your system has experienced a "freeze-up" or if it's just taking a long time to complete a request.

• Fast Find replaces Apple's built in Find function. The Fast Find utility is faster than Apple's Find function and offers a wide variety of added features and functions that enhance your system's find capabilities.

• Key Finder is a replacement for Apple's Key Caps desk accessory that gives you a map of a selected font's special characters.

• Norton Partition enables you to create partitions for hard disks and manage their use. You can also encrypt selected volumes and password protect their contents using this combination desk accessory and extension.