Apple Needs A Defragment Program By Apple!
Hello:
I'm a Mac user ever since my Centris 610 running System 7.0. Now I'm currently running OS X 10.2.6 on my PowerMac G4. My question is: Why hasn't Apple included a defragment program that comes standard with their Operating System. This would benefit all of us greatly and save us a great deal of money by not making us pay for Norton or TechTools. Even PC's come with it...That makes me mad.
I want to hear your guy's thoughts on this issue.
Thanks for your time!
-Wired Envisions
http://www.wiredenvisions.com
Mod Edit: Edited title for you - Jambo
I'm a Mac user ever since my Centris 610 running System 7.0. Now I'm currently running OS X 10.2.6 on my PowerMac G4. My question is: Why hasn't Apple included a defragment program that comes standard with their Operating System. This would benefit all of us greatly and save us a great deal of money by not making us pay for Norton or TechTools. Even PC's come with it...That makes me mad.
I want to hear your guy's thoughts on this issue.
Thanks for your time!
-Wired Envisions
http://www.wiredenvisions.com
Mod Edit: Edited title for you - Jambo
Comments
Can only DiskWarrior do this?
Originally posted by Wayne Lau
How can you check whether your system needs defragging?
Can only DiskWarrior do this?
DiskWarrior is probably one of the only disk utilities that doesn't do that.
DiskOptimizer which you got with DiskWarrior 2 optimized the disk directory - not the files on the disk.
Edit: Of course you might still need a defragmentation app if you're booting into OS 9 from time to time and use applications there. But then again, this is going to be less and less the case, isn't it.
As far as a defragmentation program, as others have pointed out Mac OS X doesn't need one.
Barto
When OS X writes a file, does it keep it all together on the harddrive so that some parts of the same file arn't scattered all over the place?
Lets clear this stuff up.
-Wired Envisions
http://www.wiredenvisions.com
I just feel that the people at Apple are extremely smart and that this shouldn't be a huge problem for them.
So if anyone from Apple reads this...please include your own defragment software with OS X.
-Wired Envisions
Originally posted by Wired Envisions
Thats great that you are able to use Lightwave to create 3D animation, but my point is, Apple show create their own 3D animation program and bundle it with the System Software so people wouldn't have to pay the 700 dollar price tag for Lightwave.
I just feel that the people at Apple are extremely smart and that this shouldn't be a huge problem for them.
So if anyone from Apple reads this...please include your own 3D animation software with OS X.
-Wired Envisions
Originally posted by Wired Envisions
Why hasn't Apple included a defragment program that comes standard with their Operating System.
They don't want to kill each and every developer.
And if the app was bundled with the OS, you would have to pay for it anyway, Mac OS is not free.
Originally posted by Wired Envisions
How doesn't OS X need a defrag program? I don't think that optimizing the system does the same thing as defraging the individual files.
When OS X writes a file, does it keep it all together on the harddrive so that some parts of the same file arn't scattered all over the place?
Lets clear this stuff up.
-Wired Envisions
http://www.wiredenvisions.com
When HFS+ writes a file it writes it on the largest available space on the harddisk which in the long run means that files don't get fragmented that often.
On PCs the file system start to write a file at the first available free space without looking at the size.
files don't get fragmented that often.
Even more the reason for Apple to include some kind of utility. I`m not about to pay 70 bucks for a piece of software I`m going to use once a year. Believe me, after a year, my HDs really needed a defrag.
A trailer hitch is very useful to some people. Yet including one on all cars wouldn't be logical. For the small minority that needs one, a perfectly suitable solution exists from third parties.
Software development isn't free, so inclusion of a seldom used and usually unnecessary feature would be a disservice to the software's customers and developers.
Originally posted by JLL
DiskOptimizer which you got with DiskWarrior 2 optimized the disk directory - not the files on the disk.
You got that backwards.
DiskOptimizer does defragment the files on a drive, whereas DiskWarrior defrags/optimizes the directory.
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http://community.sonikmatter.com/cgi...318;p=1#000008
http://community.sonikmatter.com/cgi...357;p=1#000007
You supplied some killer info to help clear this whole thread up. Thanks for all the info you gave all of use Mac Addicts. Thanks for everything.
-Wired Envisions
http://www.wiredenvisions.com