defragment mac
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"After 3 years (and one upgrade to Mac OS X) my mac suffers from crashes, usb dropouts that loses data from HDs/CF cards, finder crashes and general fuck ups, black screens"
You know how when you have a computer and it works great, then you upgrade and you give your old one to your parents. Then you go home 6 months later and some how they managed to make the thing run like shit because they are just so generally clueless about how to use a computer but you can't quite figure out how they managed to make it run so badly and why programs are fucking up so much when they used to run fine.
Yeah guessing Jurre is like that because none of that shit sounds normal.
"I find programs and finder crashes a lot. Even when just quitting photoshop/after effects, it takes so long and sometimes I need to force quit. Would defragmenting help this?"
No... all it does is move files around so their data isn't spread across the whole disk. It'll make video play smoother/big files load faster but wont fix any problems. Sounds like you hosed your OS install in some way, do an "archive and install" from the OS X disk.
- ok so i am the problem, fine. Thanks for the help :-)Jurre