As for defragging, you really don't have to worry about that either. OS X takes care of that for you as well. There may still be reasons to defrag (such as you do massive amounts of high speed data swaps in small chunks, like run an active database or file server, so your drive might become fragmented faster than normal and that fragmentation can cause unwanted decreases in performance), but chance are, if you are a person that needs to defragment, then you already know that and know why. But if you are just a normal user and aren't sure if you need to defragment, then you probably don't need to every worry about it under OS X.
When I run some upgrades from the Apple site it usually says after the download that it's optimizing the volume. So I assume doing additional defragmenting isn't needed.
Yes, I leave my Mac on most of the time now. Instead of doing a full shutdown every night before bed like I used to pre-OS X, I just put it to sleep. (Wow, I really love that, too.)
What are the pros and cons of shutting down overnight vs. putting to sleep? Ellen ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
