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#190224 - 20/11/2003 07:23 Defragmentation on MACs
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
I'm not a MAC user and I know how to defragment my PC, but my studio are asking how to do it on their MACs and I can't find it, is it in there somewhere?
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#190225 - 20/11/2003 10:08 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: boxer]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
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Loc: Raleigh, NC US
The only utilities I'm aware of are PlusOptimizer and Norton.
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#190226 - 20/11/2003 13:15 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: boxer]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
Doesn't rebuilding the desktop usually do the trick. I remember you hold the apple or command button down as it's starting up or something.
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#190227 - 20/11/2003 13:20 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: andym]
wfaulk
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``Rebuilding the desktop'' is really just reindexing all the files on the computer. It's certainly related to defragmenting, but not the same. If you want to do that, hold down Apple-Option during a reboot.
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#190228 - 20/11/2003 14:30 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: wfaulk]
andym
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I realise it's not the same. I was just saying that with my limited experience of Macs (thankfully), it usually did the trick when the machine started to slow down.
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#190229 - 20/11/2003 14:35 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: boxer]
siberia37
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Registered: 09/01/2002
Posts: 702
Loc: Tacoma,WA
They must not include a mac defragmenter because macs never get fragmented! (at least that's what they want you to believe)

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#190230 - 20/11/2003 14:51 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: wfaulk]
mcomb
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Registered: 31/08/1999
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#190231 - 20/11/2003 23:17 Re: Defragmentation on MACs [Re: andym]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
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Also, Rebuilding the Desktop is a Mac OS 9 and lower "feature" only. OS X has no such equivelent because it is not needed.

As as stated, 10.3 has built in defragmenting on files under 20 megs. Also has built in optimizations to place the most used files/programs on the quicker parts of the disk.

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