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DESCRIPTION
QuickBoot is a small application to make it quick & easy to temporarily boot another drive/partition like a Windows drive and have the system boot back to your default system after.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.5:
  • Made filesystem check less restrictive(should not mind ntfs-3g and others)
  • 10.4 will only run in background mode with status item
  • 10.4 will not check filesystems due to the system APIs not providing them
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Buttered Cat Software
Downloads:5,539
  - Version d/l:921
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:17 Dec 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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QuickBoot User Reviews (9 posts)Write A Review
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Dec 17 2009

JAKE THE SNAKE  Nice idea.

But I think I'll stick to holding down the OPTION key and just pick which drive I want to start with during a boot up.  
(Version 1.0.5)

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Nov 15 2009

GREGM  Intel Only Feature:

One shot boot to another drive, then return to the normal on subsequent boot---

Failed to return on my machine (12" PowerBook, 1.5GHz G4, OS 10.5.8).

Jeremy Knope / Buttered Cat Software responded and confirmed that this does not work on PPC machines.

Nice idea for those of us who do bootable backups and do maintenance from another drive. I guess I'll continue to ride System Preferences/Startup Disk until I eventually replace my Mac  
(Version 1.0.4)

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Oct 26 2009
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MIG4444  Installed it on MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, and made it active in the top Finder menu bar. Had it running for about three days and during that time, my menu bar would either be completely transparent, be completely non-existent, be completely unresponsive, or no Finder at all except for the wall paper and the app dock. As soon as I removed it from the Finder menu bar, the computer was back to normal. It looked like it would be a very useful utility, but I think I can do without it to keep my Finder working properly. If anyone has any suggestions how to correct this issue, please post. Thanks.  
(Version 1.0.4)

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Oct 18 2009

WELSHPAT  This is great. Just one of those damn handy little apps that's good to have.  
(Version 1.0.4)

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Aug 23 2009
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HODAGACZ  Great little app. Does exactly what it's supposed to with no fuss. Also the company name is truly awesome!  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Jun 24 2009

NAOH  By the way, I love the title of the company.  
(Version 1.0.3b3)

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Jul 14 2009

ANONYMOUS  Thanks :) glad you like it.  
(Version 1.0.3b3)

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Oct 31 2008

MATTHEWMILLER12345  Leopard Support?  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Mar 28 2008

APPLEHC  Cyberatomic, think twice: I got FileVault and quite a lot of times it will take a couple of minutes to re-boot, since FileVault will compact the Sparse Image at logoff. So I sometimes wait 5 minutes pressing the alt key just to get the boot menu. Quite annoying...  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Jul 19 2007

CYBERATOMIC  What makes this worth while when you can just hold down the option key at boot and select the drive you want - then reboot from windows, and the mac defaults to booting back to the mac partition without having to do anything else?

I don't get it, is this for people who are keyboard challenged or something?  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 19 2007

NAOH  I can think of a few situations where this may be useful.

One of which is where a machine is being accessed remotely.

Or if it is running headless.

I've also found using the alt key to be tricky, if the keyboard is a Windows style keyboard.

This utility might not have a wide audience, but it can be a time saver.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 19 2007

JEROME  The point is just to make it dead simple and not have to worry about holding down a key, which you can sometimes miss. If you have no problems holding down option then no reason to use this, just a simple alternative really.  
(Version 1.0)

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May 31 2009

GAZMAN  You're complaining about a free application that makes it easier to do something?

I used it this morning to boot up my TechToolPro DVD that I bought through the MacUpdate Promo. Worked a treat.  
(Version 1.0.3b2)

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