CampTune X Beta

Paragon Software proudly starts CampTune X Beta testing.

Beta Product information:

Web site: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptunex-beta/

Reviewer's guide: http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/CampTune_rg_en.pdf

In case you have any problems with registering or installing the product and you can’t review it, please contact us at beta-test@paragon-software.com
We will be glad to assist you.

Thank you for your participation - We'll look forward to your feedback!

Beta Testers evaluating Camptune X Beta, please review and answer the following questions, after you complete the tests of the software.

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes
b. No. (If No: please send us the log files and describe your problem shortly)

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes
b. No.( If No: please describe the stage that caused major problems for you and what improvements you suggest)

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes
b. No. (If No: please describe the confusing dialogs, or send screenshot based examples)

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes. If Yes: please describe features you want to have in the next version.
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes. (If yes, what else would you like this solution to do, extended tasks such as creating a partition for Windows, ability to backup and restore Windows partition, support of complex configurations, etc?)
b. No. It is good already and complete.

 

Hello Paragon.

I do not have Boot Camp configuration, thus I can't give you reasonable answers for question listed in your post.

However, I've installed native version of CamTune to see how far it's behind your previous attempts. Surely, native software is good step forward, but I'd like to mention a number of issues I met:

- After registration I received email with "Product Key" and "Serial Number". However CampTune X asked me to enter "Name" and "Serial".

- The program uses worst fonts I've ever seen.

P.S. Image shown when there is no Windows OS - excellent trolling

 

Hello mac_endevor,

Thanks for you reply.
We'll fix incorrect names of key and serial in Camptune and find better fonts!

 

Hi,

I also can't get past the part where it asks to enter your name and serial number. I used the serial number that was sent in the email. I'm looking forward to testing the new version of CampTune X. Thanks.

David

 

1-A
2-A
3-A
4-A - Advanced user mode with possibility to see and edit all the partitions on disk, not only Boot Camp.
5-A - Yes, Bootcamp partition copy for backup or migration to other disks.

I must say the way it is now (Beta version 1.0) it is a very simply, efficient and idiot proof application that does perfectly what is suppose to, without issues.

 

For those having problems passing the registration screen, just use the provided key inplace of your name. That should do it.

 

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes


4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. It is good already and complete.

 

Yes to all, except for what has already been mentioned. That is, the fonts could be better, and the Name should be product key. Also, on the page where I put in my key, the header "Registration" is a little off. But that's it. It does everything it should.

 

Just tried it and have problems:

I had two partitions:
MACOSX 215GB, 45GB free
BOOTCAMP 40GB

I tried to resize them, relocating 20GB from the MACOSX partition to the BOOTCAMP one.

The process failed and logs were sent (my mail is icarri at gmail.com)

After that i have some problems:

MACOSX partition new size is 195GB with 25GB free (so the 20GB are missing and nowhere to be found)
BOOTCAMP partition size is still 40GB and while i can access to it and read/write, windows no longer start in VMWare, returning the error:

Cannot open the disk '/Users/Icarri/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/Boot Camp.vmwarevm/Boot Camp.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Reason: The partition table on the physical disk has changed since the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual machine, then add it again.

How can i recover those 20GB missing?
How can i make the bootcamp partition bootable again?


UPDATE: Using the disk utility i see the space unallocated there, and can assign it back to the macosx partition (i haven't yet, i prefer to wait for your answer).

 

Second update:

I answered myself:

- How can i recover those 20GB missing?

I just expanded the MACOSX partition to take that free space using Disk Utility.

- How can i make the bootcamp partition bootable again in VMWare?

I did a google search and found how to recover the bootcamp partition in VMWare. Just had to delete the virtual machine and let VMWare to create it again. It doesn't affect at all the bootcamp partition data, it's a safe process.

Then i tried the process again and it worked fine, doing exactly the same, so i don't know what did it happen the first time. I suspect it might be related to admin rights, as the first time i ran camptune i was asked twice for the admin password, first when running the app, then again when doing the resizing process. The second and successful time, i was asked for the admin pass only when running camptune, but not when resizing.

Anyway problems solved and camptune worked fine this second time, my partitions are resized and both OSX Lion and windows 7 work fine.

 

That's why I think CampTune could take advantage of an advanced user mode, that could locate and edit this free spaces as I had a similar problem and had to use another application to allocate the free space partition I had created before to enlarge BootCamp disk. Resizing BootCamp disk in CampTune only took disk space from OSX partition without even showing the free space partition that remained the same.

 

Hello IvanC,

HFS+ resize didn't work as expected in you case. You can resize you HFS+ volume up using Disk Utility, it's totally safe.
Unfortunately, current version of log saver doesn't collect all required information to discover your issue. We will update log saver to diagnose and fix this problem ASAP.

For everybody in this thread: if you've faced this issue, please provide us with "sudo dmesg" terminal output:
Open Terminal Utility (Applications-Utilities-Terminal), type in "sudo dmesg" (without quotes), press Enter and type in your password.
Thanks!

 

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
c. No then yes.
It locked up my MacBook Pro the first time I tried using it. I had to hard boot (power off) and then the process worked perfectly other than being unclear that it was done.

2. Was the process intuitive?
c. Kinda sorta.
I didn't realize how much free space I had until I tried moving the bar all the way over. It would be helpful to indicate used space with another color like red and some text describing the amount.

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
b. No.
The checking partition status indicators don't animate. This makes it appear that the app has crashed.
In addition when the process was done there was no success indicator.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.
As I mentioned it should indicating free space.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes.
It would be awesome if it could handle creating Boot Camp partitions itself and most of all if it could do so on external drives.

 

Code:

Last login: Sat Oct 22 07:55:19 on console
Daniels-MacBook-Pro:~ danieldelaunay$ sudu dmesg
-bash: sudu: command not found
Daniels-MacBook-Pro:~ danieldelaunay$ sudo dmesg

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug  9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
vm_page_bootstrap: 941500 free pages and 33348 wired pages
kext submap [0xffffff7f8072e000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff800072e000]
zone leak detection enabled
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
mig_table_max_displ = 73
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers
IOAPIC: Version 0x11 Vectors 64:87
ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000
[ PCI configuration begin ]
console relocated to 0xf20010000
PCI configuration changed (bridge=6 device=3 cardbus=0)
[ PCI configuration end, bridges 7 devices 19 ]
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 21:08:10 Aug  9 2011) initialization complete
FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 34159efffe008308; max speed s800.
mbinit: done [64 MB total pool size, (42/21) split]
Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
BTCOEXIST off 
wl0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Wireless Controller
5.100.98.75
[IOBluetoothHCIController::setConfigState] calling registerService
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 9ED1A9DC-93E5-3AD4-8089-BC2BEFCB17E0
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@B/AppleMCP79AHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST95005620AS Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Momentus XT@2
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Kernel is LP64
NVEthernet: Ethernet address 34:15:9e:00:83:08
AirPort_Brcm4331: Ethernet address f8:1e:df:e5:e5:29
IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete():  adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():  
Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
AGC: 3.0.16, HW version=1.7.10, flags:0, features:4
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
DSMOS has arrived
Created virtif 0xffffff800ca43a00 p2p0
AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
00000000  00000020  NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active
NTFS driver 3.8 [Flags: R/W].
NTFS volume name BOOTCAMP, version 3.1.
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
MacAuthEvent en1   Auth result for: 00:11:24:aa:ed:65  MAC AUTH succeeded
wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP
AirPort: Link Up on en1
en1: BSSID changed to 00:11:24:aa:ed:65
AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
macx_swapon SUCCESS
com.avast.AvastFileShield: Started.
com.avast.AvastFileShield: Disabling debug mode.
AppleLMUController found an AG vendor product (0x9cac), notifying SMC.
virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task*, void*, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
utun_ctl_connect: creating interface utun0
Daniels-MacBook-Pro:~ danieldelaunay$

 

Downloaded and installed CampTune X Beta on Apple MacBook Pro (2008 Penryn) running Mac OS X Lion v10.7.1.
1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
No. (If No: please send us the log files and describe your problem shortly)
The first attempt failed with my machine giving a Finder has stop working error.
Had to reboot.
Could not find any log files.
Second attempt at "Redistribution" went off flawlessly
Original BootCamp size 81GB original and Mac OS partition 636GB
BootCamp new size 154GB and Mac OS partition 596GB.
Both operating systems boot flawlessly.

Aside from installation dialogue incorrectly wanting Name and Serial Number
as opposed to Product Key (Name) and Serial number entered.

The process was intuitive and logical but an active (percentage completed / time remaining) "pacifier" would be apprecated as opposed to the hardly moving installation bar.

No additional features need to be added! The program does a rather intricate and critical job very well as per it's brief.. The "KISS" principle at its best!

 

1). Yes
2). Yes
3). Yes
4). Yes. I would like to have the ability to create and format to NTFS a partition like in the previous versions. Critical for me.

 

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
used 10.7 on a 160gb drive which had 40gb of free space on the mac partition and a 20gb windows partition.
resized the windows 7 (64) partition from 20 to 30 GB and it went through without error.
it seems to have messed up the partition table though.
noticed when it was done there was now an extra Windows in Finder.



here's the diskutil output

macbook:CampTune X pat$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Lion 124.2 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 20.0 GB disk0s4
4: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s5
5: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 29.8 GB disk0s6

i'll reboot and see if anything changed.

edit: it seems now is back to normal. noticed that recovery hd isn't the last partition anymore.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Lion 124.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 29.8 GB disk0s4



2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes, but it'd be good if during the resize dialog it showed you the free space of each partition.

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes.
Noticed it says Camptune and not CampTune at the top of the window.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
the ability to designate a hard drive for windows only. i think this would be tough for usb though. if it was for internal only that'd be ok.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
no comment

 

i posted the above post but don't know how to edit it.
just replying that I think i've found a bug. I can no longer select to boot the Windows partition from Startup Disk in OS X.

 

1. No.
Experienced hard lockup after moving the redistribution slider (and then clicking continue). Forced to power cycle computer. Tried several times. Dmesg and diskutil output follows. Never got to the screen where i can save off logs... if they're stored somewhere let me know. Computer still works.

2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
5. No

Code:

-----------------------------------
dmesg
-----------------------------------
calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
IOAPIC: Version 0x11 Vectors 64:87
ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
PFM64 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000
[ PCI configuration begin ]
console relocated to 0xf10030000
PCI configuration changed (bridge=6 device=3 cardbus=0)
[ PCI configuration end, bridges 7 devices 19 ]
mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 101BA587-D706-36C2-AB62-269BA1667004
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 16:44:42 Jun  7 2011) initialization complete
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
BTCOEXIST off 
wl0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Wireless Controller
5.10.131.42
FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 002332fffec693b4; max speed s800.
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@B/AppleMCP79AHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/WDC WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Untitled 2@2
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 16544256 to: 20611584 (joffset 0x951000)
jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.
Kernel is LP64
hfs: Removed 10 orphaned / unlinked files and 0 directories 
NVEthernet: Ethernet address 00:23:32:c6:93:b4
AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address 00:23:6c:7e:00:d1
IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete():  adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
systemShutdown false
Waiting for DSMOS...
AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
AGC: 2.10.6, HW version=1.7.3, flags:0, features:4
kxld[com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard]: The Mach-O filetype 0x1 is not supported on the target architecture.
Can't load kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard - link failed.
Failed to load executable for kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard.
Kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard failed to load (0xdc008016).
Failed to load kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard (error 0xdc008016).
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
DSMOS has arrived
/drv/ HypApic.c:234   Host APIC  phy 0xFEE00000  lin 0xffffff80ab41a000  ver 0x14
/drv/ HypRealCpu.c:189   hypRealCpusInfoInit: STATUS_SUCCESS
/drv/ HypLowCache.c:158   Low cache initialized (7808 kB for 16 VMs on 8192 MB)
/drv/ HypModule.c:178   Parallels IPI irq = 0 ipi = 0(0x0)
/drv/ HypModule.c:181   Parallels Hypervisor 4.0.3846.436204 loaded.
NTFS driver 3.4 [Flags: R/W].
00000000  00000020  NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active
NTFS volume name BOOTCAMP, version 3.1.
/prl_hid/ Parallels HID Helper started.
IOBluetoothBNEPDriver: Ethernet address 00:23:12:5d:e8:27
com.parallels.kext.prlnet 4.0.3846.436204 has started.
com.parallels.kext.vnic 4.0.3846.436204 has started.
com_parallels_kext_prl_vnic_device_0: Ethernet address 00:1c:42:00:00:08
com_parallels_kext_prl_vnic_device_1: Ethernet address 00:1c:42:00:00:09
Auth result for: 68:7f:74:02:67:d6 MAC AUTH succeeded
AirPort: Link Up on en1
AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
ast_pending=0xffffff8000228b0e
cpu_interrupt=0xffffff800022f0ae
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x85a offMax=0x13d1
VBoxDrv: version 4.1.4 r74291; IOCtl version 0x190000; IDC version 0x10000; dev major=19
VBoxFltDrv: version 4.1.4 r74291
VBoxAdpDrv: version 4.1.4 r74291
BootCache: hit rate below threshold (4323 hits on 8647 lookups)

--------------------------------------
diskutil
--------------------------------------
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            159.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                590.1 GB   disk0s3

 

Has anyone found a solution to this? My Mac side was correctly partitioned but my Bootcamp partition won't even show up. Is there a way to recover it?

 

Yes. I've had that problem a couple times.

I always booted my Window installation CD-ROM and select "Startup Repair." Its an automatic process.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

This is for Windows 7, but previous versions of Windows have had this too. There is also the Recovery Console where you can issue advanced commands (google that)... but I have never had to resort to that.

 

But where would I boot the Windows DVD from? I can't even access the partitition to restore Windows.

 

Hold down the option key during startup, and after a few secs, the boot menu will show DVD/CD as an option. You can also hold the 'c' key to boot directly, but I've never tried that.

http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/qt/osxstartupkeys.htm

 

are you saying a windows repair caused the windows partition to show up in startup disk again?

I think it could be related to camptune x moving the windows partition AFTER the recovery hd partition. that's just a theory though.

 

So I downloaded the beta software and attempted to try it out and it is stuck at the "Your system is being scanned for a Boot Camp Configuration" screen and goes no where. I've let it sit for quite some time. I've rebooted and tried, repaired permissions and tried... nothing. From start to finish I downloaded the program, moved it to the applications folder like it asks, started it from there, entered the info from the email and hit continue and then it just sits there. Am I doing something wrong?

thanks