alt Hacker NewsI worked on a disk utility in the 90s called PartitionMagic that was one of the first ones to let you dynamically resize disk partitions.
Maybe Samsung used that when naming their product.
I am old, but I miss the days when the install process was copy . to /<appFolder> and the uninstall process was delete /<appFolder>
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When a user mode application on the Mac doesn't just allow you to drag the app into the applications folder to install, it's a red huge red flag.
Personally, I'd look for another alternative from a company that better understands the Mac.
Chrome, for instance, previously used an installer that had to run with administrative permissions and famously ended up rendering systems unbootable.
System utilities and drivers are the exception, since they have to modify system folders to install.
Partition Magic was pretty awesome, BTW.
PartitionMagic was in every geeks toolbox back in the day, amazing and always reliable, saved so much time! Thank you!
I read the HN title and literally thought to myself “‘disk utility’? What, like PartitionMagic?”
Then this was the top comment.
Thanks for PartitionMagic; what a great program.
PartionMagic was not A disk utility, it was THE disk utility!
> I worked on a disk utility in the 90s called PartitionMagic
PartitionMagic was a S-Tier windows utility. Thank you.
Oh I used that all the time, it was so awersome! back in the day it really felt like magic...
hey, thanks for partitionmagic, it was amazing.
Partition Magic was among the first utilities recommended to me by my more experienced water I got my first PC. It served me well for many years since!
Lots of Mac software is still like this minus possible leftovers in a few other folders for uninstall.
> I am old, but I miss the days when the install process was copy . to /<appFolder> and the uninstall process was delete /<appFolder>
I don't remember this ever being the case, even in times of DOS.
Windows is the same now.
Due to "new and better" approach, each program puts its data in 5 different folders for "multi user" reasons.
What is infuriating that all those folders are hidden and all of them are on C: drive. So your C: drive gets clogged.
This makes it impossible to track how much space each program uses.
(On a side note its been years since floppy drives were the A: drive... and yet we are still stuck with the primary disk being called C:)
[ Thank you for "PartitionMagic" - crucially important for home / personal computer users, at least in my own history. ]
And, I wonder if a (corporate) development organization's overall cultural friction around critical / negative feedback -- in this case integration issues in the technical sense of pulling together modules built by subteams to compose a final product -- could be worth investigating when challenging metrics like the above are identified?
This "18 steps" seems like a problem. And I wonder if it's a prioritized concern at SAM.
SNARK: The "magic" could be how corporate culture is communicated to users merely through usage of Samsung Magician.