On Jun 27, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> My question: How do I create 5100 mb of contiguous free space on my > TimeMachine disk or any disk for that matter. The first thing to check is if there’s at least 5100 MB of space available on the disk. If not, you’ll have to delete some stuff. Given there’s enough space on the disk, you’ll have to defragment it somehow. DiskWarrior has defragmentation capability, as do most other disk utilities such as TechTool—but not Apple’s Disk Utility. Another way is to copy the files to another disk, delete them from the original and copy them back. I’ve not defragged a Mac this century, so I don’t know how well the tools in DiskWarrior and TechTool do the job. It’s generally not necessary, unless you regularly work with files that are so individually huge they take up a large portion of your hard drive. With drives in the multi-TB range, this is getting pretty uncommon. If you find you really need to defrag a drive, you probably need a bigger drive. L^2
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