MISHA Yes, it's very safe to use. MacFormat (biggest UK Mac magazine) gave it 5/5 and Macworld (biggest US Mac magazine) gave it 4/5. I have used it since January on all my Macs without a single issue -- I wouldn't have let it be included in the bundle if it wasn't up to par. Having said that, *all* disk utilities of this sort can potentially cause issues, which is why all of them recommend that you have a recent backup just in case. If you look at the reviews on MU that claim TechTool Pro hosed their drives or data, you'll see it's really quite low -- only a few instances, vs. the 100,00s of downloads this app has had over its lifetime. Happy people tend not to find the outlets to voice their happiness, since the app does what it was supposed to do. Unhappy people make a point of bashing the app everywhere they can, since the app did not do for them what it was supposed to. Many of the complaints here stem from Micromat's policy of charging for new DVDs that can boot up newer Macs, as they're released. But this is congruent with the policies of Alsoft (DiskWarrior) and ProSoft (Drive Genius), its two biggest competitors. Bandwidth isn't free and if every time a new DVD was released they sent it out to all their customers free (at a 700MB download a pop) they would incur huge expense. So these companies charge anywhere from $5-$20 for the new DVDs. Micromat also has a plan where you pay an annual fee and get ALL the new DVDs automatically mailed to you. When you take TechTool Pro for a test drive please let us know what you think.
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