--- Bill Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am but an egg, with no aspirations to attain the
> lofty status of preserved
> cukes, but I'll take a stab at this one...
> Complete files can fragment the available free space
> on a drive...if there
> were one block of free space, and the Mac wrote a
> file somewhere in the
> middle of that space, you would then have two free
> space fragments and no
> fragmented files. Kinda like the Brownie analogy, if
> you took a brownie out
> of the middle of the pan.

Oooooh! Excellent analog there. Now I must smite thee
for mentioning food an hour before lunch! ;)
*whap*

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