We’re pleased to announce the release of version 3.2.0 of iPartition, which is mainly a bug fix release for users of iPartition 3.1.4, although we have added support for putting journals on external drives (this is only supported officially on Snow Leopard OS X Server).

For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

Please note: we have now dropped support for Panther (10.3) and PowerPC G3 machines so please do not try and upgrade if this applies to you.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We’re pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.4 of iPartition, which is a bug fix release for users of iPartition 3.1.3.

For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

We have also released a new version of CDMaker which should be able to create templates from Snow Leopard installation DVDs. If you need it, select “Check for Updates…” in the menu.

Alternatively, you can download directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

UPDATE: We have now released an update to iPartition and iDefrag Lite. We are still working on the iDefrag update.

There are a few known minor issues with Snow Leopard:

1. Snow Leopard uses compression for some files. If these become fragmented and you use the Quick (on-line) algorithm to defragment them, they will become uncompressed. Until we release an update we advise you not to use the Quick (on-line) algorithm.
2. In the Info window, iDefrag will display zero for the size of compressed files and they will have no data fork. This is just a display issue.
3. Both iDefrag and iPartition will crash at launch time when running on a 64 bit kernel. By default, only the latest Xserve machines will be running the 64 bit Kernel so it should not affect many people. You can easily work around this by booting with the 32 bit kernel instead: hold down the 3 and the 2 keys as you power on the machine.

Please be aware that it’s perfectly fine to run iDefrag on a volume that has Snow Leopard installed whilst booted from a volume that has an earlier version of OS X, and that includes any bootable DVDs you might have made. The issues above still remain though i.e. you still shouldn’t run the on-line algorithm on a Snow Leopard volume until we’ve issued an update.

We will be releasing updates to iPartition and iDefrag soon that should address these issues. Please report any other issues to us via our support team.

We're pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.3 of iPartition, which is a bug fix release for users of iPartition 3.1.2.

For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You'll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select "Check for Updates…" in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you'll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the "Reset Password" button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We're pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.2 of iPartition.

For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You'll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select "Check for Updates…" in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you'll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the "Reset Password" button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We’re pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.1 of iPartition.

This release comes with tentative French localisation. Please report any problems you find. We know that there are a couple of things that are still in English. Many thanks to Ronald Leroux for helping us with the translation.

It also comes with a few other bug fixes. For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We’re pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.0 of iPartition.

This release supports formatting of NTFS partitions.

It also comes with numerous other bug fixes. For full release notes, see the iPartition news page. You’ll need an ATOM enabled browser such as Safari to read that page.

To get this update, select “Check for Updates…” in the iPartition menu and do the same for iDefrag Lite.

Alternatively, you can download it directly from our site. If you choose this method, you’ll need your username (the e-mail address you registered with us) and password. If you cannot remember/find your password, select the “Reset Password” button on the log-in page.

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.

We were recently contacted by a customer who lost data after using iPartition on a Drobo unit. Having reviewed the information on the Drobo website, we believe iPartition is probably incompatible with Drobo.

The reason for the incompatibility is that it looks as if Drobo is using knowledge of the Mac and PC filesystems that it supports to optimise data storage on its disks. That, coupled with the fact that Drobo is able to lie about the amount of space available on the disk (“Thin Provisioning”), means that there is a significant risk of problems if you attempt to use repartitioning software on a Drobo unit.

We have contacted Data Robotics, Inc., the manufacturers of Drobo, and if possible we would very much like to work with them to resolve this issue.

In the meantime, we strongly advise customers not to use iPartition on Drobo units.