They can shove it, as far as I am concerned. They b'essed during the last five years and now they are saying that only M1 Macs on Monterrey or whatever behemoth system Apple comes up with afterwards are gonna be supported ... I think this is just one more "circus story". As iPedro said before, they wore out whatever welcome they enjoyed from the Mac community with their lack of transparency and handling of this matter.
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Ouch.. just upgraded to Big Sur 11.6.3 (was on 11.6.2) before and now DiskWarrior says "DiskWarrior was unable to communicate with required system software."
Their webpage says DiskWarrior 5.3 will be released sometime and that it will be a free update to owners of v.5.2, will still repair Time Machine backups and external volumes formatted in HFS+ and be fully compatible with Big Sur
Still painful that they don't give an ETA for it.
Their webpage says DiskWarrior 5.3 will be released sometime and that it will be a free update to owners of v.5.2, will still repair Time Machine backups and external volumes formatted in HFS+ and be fully compatible with Big Sur
Still painful that they don't give an ETA for it.
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In the best "QuarkXpress Style" of customer neglect, we are witnessing the self-destruction of Alsoft.
Someone is sticking to their guns with a failed philosophy of not letting their client base participate in their accidented road to the completion of their next DiskWarrior release.
Had they had the foresight of allowing their clients to take an active roll of supporting them in their alleged fight to obtain the 'final specification' of the APFS architecture from Apple by keeping their customer base abreast of their difficulties ... people like myself would had actively supported them and would had rooted along, while they fought Apple (which they must have, since Apple is not and has never been an easy company to deal with).
But no. TOTAL SILENCE AND SECRECY. As of now, very few people remember Alsoft and DiskWarrior ... so much time has gone by, that ... they themselves are now gone by.
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It might make sense that DiskWarrior 6 has not been released yet, since it requires full APFS documentation disclosure from Apple (Alsoft is under NDA with Apple), and they take time to release new versions (it took seven years to release a 64-bit version of DiskWarrior). APFS for macOS was released on September 2017 (4.5 years ago).
But it does not make sense that they have not released DiskWarrior 5.3 as native for ARM-based Apple Silicon Macs, since it works with HFS+ (not APFS), for which documentation is complete. Even more, on November 2020, Alsoft said that DiskWarrior 5.3 was around the corner and in January 2021 they said that it was in final testing phase. More than a year later we have nothing. Not even a tentative release date. The conclusion seems obvious: key Alsoft Engineers like Rusty Little (Alsoft/DiskWarrior Project Manager) are not probably working at Alsoft any more (coronavirus, underpaid, other?). Otherwise, it just does not make sense, as said.
The bad news is the current situation. The good news is that APFS is much robust than HFS, and that Disk Utility's First Aid can repair APFS disks. Although it would be great to have DiskWarrior 6, of course, just in case. The same can be said for the other disk-repair utilities for Mac: TechTool Pro (Micromat) and Drive Genius (Prosoft Engineering). Time will tell what happens eventually.
But it does not make sense that they have not released DiskWarrior 5.3 as native for ARM-based Apple Silicon Macs, since it works with HFS+ (not APFS), for which documentation is complete. Even more, on November 2020, Alsoft said that DiskWarrior 5.3 was around the corner and in January 2021 they said that it was in final testing phase. More than a year later we have nothing. Not even a tentative release date. The conclusion seems obvious: key Alsoft Engineers like Rusty Little (Alsoft/DiskWarrior Project Manager) are not probably working at Alsoft any more (coronavirus, underpaid, other?). Otherwise, it just does not make sense, as said.
The bad news is the current situation. The good news is that APFS is much robust than HFS, and that Disk Utility's First Aid can repair APFS disks. Although it would be great to have DiskWarrior 6, of course, just in case. The same can be said for the other disk-repair utilities for Mac: TechTool Pro (Micromat) and Drive Genius (Prosoft Engineering). Time will tell what happens eventually.
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Sorry to necro the thread, but Alsoft appears to have removed all references to 'DiskWarrior 6.0' from its website and is only saying that DiskWarrior 5.3 is coming which will provide M1 and Monterey support.. for HFS+ only
lt's still there. They clearly revised their strategy and 5.3 will now support M1 and Monterey and 6.0 will be able to rebuild APFS. At least some progress, but I've stopped waiting.
Today - I try to launch DW5. Instead, I get "The serial number of this copy of DiskWarrior is no longer valid. Please contact Alsoft to obtain a new serial number."
I use DW all the time, on the wide range of Macs that I own, DW (even though it does not function with APFS format drives) is one tool that I use on just about all the old Macs that I maintain.
The serial number/license supports single use on one Mac. I cannot actually run it on more than one of my Macs at the same time, which is how the license allows it. Never had a problem until today.
Anybody else who has tried DW5 today?
I use DW all the time, on the wide range of Macs that I own, DW (even though it does not function with APFS format drives) is one tool that I use on just about all the old Macs that I maintain.
The serial number/license supports single use on one Mac. I cannot actually run it on more than one of my Macs at the same time, which is how the license allows it. Never had a problem until today.
Anybody else who has tried DW5 today?
Because of your post, I just tried launching Disk Warrior 5.2 and it launched fine. I was using a 2018 Mac Mini running Catalina OS.
Thanks for the feedback...
I tried multiple times, 3 different system versions, and all failed.
That was a couple of hours ago. I did email Alsoft support about that.
And, now tried 3 different Macs, and now can launch DiskWarrior5 (with no issues at all)
Some kind of glitch on Alsoft's end, I guess, but fixed now...
I tried multiple times, 3 different system versions, and all failed.
That was a couple of hours ago. I did email Alsoft support about that.
And, now tried 3 different Macs, and now can launch DiskWarrior5 (with no issues at all)
Some kind of glitch on Alsoft's end, I guess, but fixed now...