DEFRAGMENTING
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From: nickky on 25 Sep 2005 11:46 Hi all, Does anyone knows if it is necessary for MAC to be defragmented. I downloaded a couple of mpg's and programs then eventually deleting them. Is it the same with Windows that u need to defrag your C drive in order to run your system faster? Lemme know..... thanks so much.
From: Ian Gregory on 25 Sep 2005 12:01 nickky wrote: > Does anyone knows if it is necessary for MAC to be defragmented. I > downloaded a couple of mpg's and programs then eventually deleting them. > Is it the same with Windows that u need to defrag your C drive in order to > run your system faster? In general there is little or no benefit in using third party tools to "defragment" Mac OS X filesystems and in some cases it can even decrease performance. For more details see "About disk optimization with Mac OS X" at: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668 Ian -- Ian Gregory http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/
From: Tom Stiller on 25 Sep 2005 12:07 In article <f48906dcc3a28c4bff6bcc78f363f478(a)localhost.talkaboutmac.com>, "nickky" <overdrive_zed(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone knows if it is necessary for MAC to be defragmented. I > downloaded a couple of mpg's and programs then eventually deleting them. > Is it the same with Windows that u need to defrag your C drive in order to > run your system faster? > > Lemme know..... thanks so much. The MAC (Media Access Controller) never needs defragmenting. Mac OS X running on a Mac (Macintosh computer) does a decent job of reducing the need for file defragmenting, although the free space may become fragmented over time. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Kent Clarke on 25 Sep 2005 22:30 In article <f48906dcc3a28c4bff6bcc78f363f478(a)localhost.talkaboutmac.com>, "nickky" <overdrive_zed(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone knows if it is necessary for MAC to be defragmented. I > downloaded a couple of mpg's and programs then eventually deleting them. > Is it the same with Windows that u need to defrag your C drive in order to > run your system faster? > > Lemme know..... thanks so much. Maybe. If you're running the latest version of OS X, and don't do video editing, then no. If you do use iMovie, then it might help. A safer way to do it would be to copy the video project to your backup drive, then copy it back to your working drive, but only if you're having a problem with dropouts. As Apple says: "If your disks are almost full, and you often modify or create large files (such as editing video, but see the Tip below if you use iMovie and Mac OS X 10.3), there's a chance the disks could be fragmented. In this case, you might benefit from defragmentation, which can be performed with some third-party disk utilities."
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