Posted by: boxer
Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 07:23
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?
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 10:08
The only utilities I'm aware of are
PlusOptimizer and
Norton.
Posted by: andym
Re: Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 13:15
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.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 13:20
``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.
Posted by: andym
Re: Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 14:30
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.
Posted by: siberia37
Re: Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 14:35
They must not include a mac defragmenter because macs never get fragmented! (at least that's what they want you to believe)
Posted by: drakino
Re: Defragmentation on MACs - 20/11/2003 23:17
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.