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De Fragment for Macs?

post #1 of 18
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Ok my friend just told me how to de frag a PC. I did it for my old PC and it did wonders. I would like to it for my Mac as well. Is there a de frag? What is it called? How do I use it?
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Just Say No to Defrag (on OS X)

-With apologoies to Nancy Reagan

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post #3 of 18
On a Mac there is a section of the HD - with the quickest response used for files less than 100MB that are used frequently. OS X would therefore suffer from de-fragmenting. Also OS X defrags automatically.
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But, if you wanted to do it, Norton Utilities includes a program called speeddisk, that will do it for you.
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And OS X will promptly operate on 6 of 8 cylinders whenever it has to touch the disk. That will go on for a couple weeks until the hot zone sorts itself out. That is if Norton doesn't hose the show.
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BUT, if you wanted to do it, Norton Utilities has a program called speeddisk that will do it for you.
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post #7 of 18
and that program called Norton will probably do other things for you, like bork your filesystem....

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SO in short, DON'T defrag your Mac!
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BUT...
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BUT...

don't
post #11 of 18
MS's next OS upgrade, Longhorn, also includes auto defragging.
No there are no settings and no you can't turn it on or off.

It the FS that requires/causes the defragging.

Both HFS+ and UFS are auto defragged by the OS. If you write to an NTFS or DOS partition then this will need to be defragged as well (even if its on OS X).

Dobby.
post #12 of 18
seems like a "huurrrrr how dew i DEFRAG my Macz HD cuz u can do it in windoze??/?" thread pops up like clockwork on any mac related forum site. even if you've only spent a month here at appleinsider you know this is true. what's the deal with that? i'm getting tired of the "auto defragging" on OSX not being common knowledge.
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Originally posted by Trans9B
seems like a "huurrrrr how dew i DEFRAG my Macz HD cuz u can do it in windoze??/?" thread pops up like clockwork on any mac related forum site. even if you've only spent a month here at appleinsider you know this is true. what's the deal with that? i'm getting tired of the "auto defragging" on OSX not being common knowledge.

It means that there are more and more people who are coming from Windows to the Mac. It's a good thing.

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Originally posted by lundy
It means that there are more and more people who are coming from Windows to the Mac. It's a good thing.

"OMG USE TEH SEARCH N00B" deleted. I'm getting tired of the "don't tell people to search" rule not being common knowledge.

well said
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you've got a nice big e-penis there lundy, glad you whipped it out for all of us to see. just trying to help keep this place clean.
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you've got a nice big e-penis there lundy, glad you whipped it out for all of us to see. just trying to help keep this place clean.

oh dear
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keeping it clean eh?
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post #18 of 18
i could've used a better word than clean...one without so many contexts
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