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post #1 of 18
5/21/05 at 8:29am
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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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post #2 of 18
5/21/05 at 10:09am
Just Say No to Defrag (on OS X)

-With apologoies to Nancy Reagan

Search says...:earlier thread
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post #3 of 18
5/21/05 at 4:51pm
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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post #4 of 18
5/21/05 at 7:52pm
But, if you wanted to do it, Norton Utilities includes a program called speeddisk, that will do it for you.
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post #5 of 18
5/21/05 at 10:23pm
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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post #6 of 18
5/21/05 at 10:33pm
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
5/22/05 at 5:16am
and that program called Norton will probably do other things for you, like bork your filesystem....

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post #8 of 18
5/22/05 at 8:28am
SO in short, DON'T defrag your Mac!
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post #9 of 18
5/22/05 at 11:12am
BUT...
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post #10 of 18
5/22/05 at 12:03pm
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Originally posted by tomj
BUT...

don't
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post #11 of 18
5/22/05 at 6:29pm
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.
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post #12 of 18
5/25/05 at 1:58am
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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post #13 of 18
5/25/05 at 11:32am
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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.

"OMG USE TEH SEARCH N00B" deleted. I'm getting tired of the "don't tell people to search" rule not being common knowledge.
--Johnny
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post #14 of 18
5/25/05 at 3:08pm
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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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post #15 of 18
5/25/05 at 5:27pm
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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post #16 of 18
5/25/05 at 6:02pm
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Originally posted by Trans9B
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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post #17 of 18
5/25/05 at 9:42pm
keeping it clean eh?
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post #18 of 18
5/26/05 at 12:53am
i could've used a better word than clean...one without so many contexts
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