Norton Utilities for Mac 8.0

by Symantec

Product Features

• Repairs computer problems and rebuilds damaged disks
• Boot the Norton Utilities CD into either Mac OS X or Mac OS 9
• Recovers lost data
• Improves system performance
• All components run natively on Mac OS X

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009Q6L6
• Item model number: 10067280
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 23, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,236 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Symantec’s Norton Utilities 8.0 for Macintosh maximizes your computer’s performance. It finds and repairs disk problems at the click of a button, and can alert you to potential problems before they cause trouble. Lost a file through a disk problem or accidental deletion? Norton Utilities can rebuild damaged disks, then help you identify and recover vital files. It also improves hard drive performance by defragmenting and organizing files more efficiently. Now all components run natively on Mac OS X, and you can boot the Norton Utilities CD into either Mac OS X or Mac OS 9 during disk emergencies.

Product Description

Optimizes performance and solves problems easily All components are now Mac® OS X native Wipe InfoTM permanently removes sensitive information You can schedule Speed DiskTM defragmentations to run at a time of your choice

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not ready for Panther despite what Symantec says!, January 5, 2004

By 

John Greenstreet (Mount Laurel, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Utilities for Mac 8.0 (CD-ROM)

Despite much info on the Symantec site indicating version 8.0 is ready for Panther, it's actually quite worthless. Sure, you can use "Live Update" to install the 8.0.1 update that supposedly supports Panther (10.3.x), but that's of little use since both Disk Doctor and Speed Disk are worthless when run from the startup volume (the only place thay can be installed).

Therefore, the "emergency" startup CD becomes an ultra-critical item for this utility since you'll need it whenever you want to optimize your startup disk. Yet there are no instructions anywhere on their site on how to make a new "emergency" startup CD. The version 8.0.0 startup CD WILL NOT work with Panther's journaled file system.

As an added "bonus", Symantec has included a disk move/copy utility that is very dangerous. I tried to back up my system onto another partition using it. The first thing you'll notice, other than the sub-shareware appearance and total lack of any tooltips or help, is that there's no status or progress indication whatsoever. Worse still, I found out later that it had only copied 8 GB of my 23 GB of files. I'm glad I noticed that before I relied on the backed-up files!

I would give this package zero stars if that were an option! Don't buy this utility!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Worst Experience Ever, November 21, 2003

By 

David Lebovitz (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Utilities for Mac 8.0 (CD-ROM)

I booted up my Mac off the CD containing the software, as was recommended. After the software scanned my disk and, uh, 'repaired' it, I was unable to get back into my operating system and the screen came up the dreaded big Question Mark. After having the guy at the Apple Store fiddle with my computer, I used Disk Warrior (which I now know is a much better product) and had the fellow at Apple reinstall OS X; the whole thing took 3 hours, I was able to retreive some information, but most of my system needed to be reconfigured and much was lost. I called Symantec for help ($29.95 per call) and they couldn't help me. I had to pay someone hundreds of dollars to fix my computer. Avoid this product!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bummed., February 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Norton Utilities for Mac 8.0 (CD-ROM)

I used Norton 8.0 and later upgraded via LiveUpdate to 8.0.1 in order to make Norton compatible with Panther. Oof. What a disaster. Speed Disk did nothing to speed up my computer. I had several MAJOR disk problems over the course of the past 3 months, and Norton did not fix them. Norton fixed a TON of dates that it said needed to be fixed, for icon purposes, but that's it! Most recently, after waiting for my computer to boot for 15 minutes (stuck on the dreaded spinning disk at startup) after running Norton, I scrapped the entire plan, reinstalled Panther and YAY my computer works nicely now. Before spending the money, try using Disk Utility on your OSX disks...or reinstall your system which you already paid good money for. I think it can only work better then this.