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?
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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Search says...:earlier thread
Originally posted by tomj
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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.
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.
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
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