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Paladin9

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Defrag a mac
« on: 24 January 2003, 10:15 »
How the hell do I defrag my mac?  Do not tell me to use speed disk!! I already know about it and I do not want to spend money just to simply defrag my mac.  What else is there?
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« Reply #1 on: 24 January 2003, 11:14 »
i dont think you have to defrag a mac. i have never heard of anyone doing it, and sorta figured that it is unecesary.

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« Reply #2 on: 24 January 2003, 11:49 »
When it comes to Speed Disk, I think that program is lying. My hard drive is no more fragmented than I
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« Reply #3 on: 24 January 2003, 17:03 »
Don't macs have an intelligent file system like linux so it prevents fragmentation in the first place?

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« Reply #4 on: 24 January 2003, 17:51 »
Mac OS 9 benefitted from defragging, but OS X does not, AFAIK. I've never defragged my OS X box.

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« Reply #5 on: 24 January 2003, 21:09 »
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Originally posted by cocoamix:
Mac OS 9 benefitted from defragging, but OS X does not, AFAIK. I've never defragged my OS X box.


This is correct. OSX needs no defragging.

Norton Utilities for OS9 will defrag if you so need to, but fragmentation in OS9 is not such a big deal eather because of the way it stores Application DATA. Unlike a PC where a billion files can be scatered thrughout a harddrive, Mac files are usually few and self contained. So you rearly gain any benifit from defragging OS9 in the first place.
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