I thought OSX didn't require defragging ?
I thought it did it in the background or something?
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On 07-07-2003 17:00, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to be fair: The follow-up mail on the TidBITs site is largely critical
> of the original article I commented on. It finds a number of other good
> reasons for defragmenting disks, particularly when using video or graphic
> apps that create and use large files, or when running a system that creates
> a lot of swap files (fragmented swap files can make a system crawl, so
> defragging free space, to allow for contiguous swap files, is important).
> But, my interpretation of things, the general opinion seems to be that
> defragging the entire disk is something that needs to be done only every
> three to six months, and that doing a full backup, erase, and restore
> accomplishes the same thing, usually much faster.
>
> For Entourage users, summing up: if you have adequate contiguous free space,
> you can "defrag" the Entourage identity files by duplicating the folder,
> erasing the original, and renaming the copy to replace the original. It
> often will give a noticeable performance boost. A rebuild of the database
> will do the same thing (takes a bit longer, though), and (some say) has an
> added performance benefit because it reorganizes the database's internal
> structure.
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