I purchased TechTools Pro yesterday. When I ran "preview optimization" to see
how fragmented the disk is I got this message:
Volume Directory is fragmented.
It is not safe to optimize
Restart from an eDrive:
From the original volume to a new empty volume do “Volume Cloning”.
From the new volume back to the original volume do “Volume Cloning”
Duplicate Cloning"
I also learned
I have used 488.56 GB
11.2 GB Free Space
Largest Contiguous Free Space is 523.07 MB
Free Space Fragmentation 95.33%
0 fragmented files.
It’s all very interesting.
> On Jun 28, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Nice to see you too, John. Unforntunately, I do not Tech Tools Pro in any
> version compatible to my current machines. If I still have Tech Tool it’s
> several years old.
>
> Perhaps I will invest in it.
>
> Harry
>
>
>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:57 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Harry,
>>
>> So great to see you today, been far too long. In TechTools Pro8 one of the
>> modules is defrag if you think you should do first.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I ran disk warrior again on the time machine drive. This time I turned off
>>> Time Machine and ran disk warrior from my mac not from the jump drive.
>>>
>>> I received the same message- make available 5100 mb of contiguous disk space
>>>
>>> The disk has 13.64 gb of free space. Go figure.
>>>
>>> I can not find a defrag function on disk tools.
>>>
>>> I guess I will try what you suggest Lee.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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