defrag mac?
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- forcetwelve
any good apps for defragging macs?
- imnotadesigner0
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defrag a mac?
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- forcetwelve0
apparently this is good:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.ph…
- ribit0
OSX doesn't need it.
- quamb0
thought you didn't need to defrag macs... something to do with the file system.
- ********0
you really dont need to defrag any newer computers since the HD tech has improved. Which also goes for conditioning battery.
New batteries tend to not last if you drain and discharge time to time.
- its not HD tech. Its that OSX is UNIX.ribit
- get OUT of here, any HD on windows NEEDS defrag at least every 6 months.********
- forcetwelve0
ah ok - cool
- i_monk0
as I recall it automatically does a file cleanup thing every Tuesday at 3:15AM. If you're up at that time you'll hear it going; check your processes and you'll see one gobbling up all your resources to get it done.
- ribit0
but of course file cleanup is nothing to do with defrag
- forcetwelve0
in my travels i found an app called mainmenu. it's pretty good - cleans up all the caches etc. definately notice it running better.
- rafalski0
Of course defragmentation of HFS+ volumes is beneficial, as Apple only tells you part of the story. The system handles on-the-fly defragmentation of files up to 20MB only. The system doesn't defragment files that are in use.
How many people were surprised they couldn't partition their disk for Boot Camp despite having sufficient disk space? How come defragmentation solves their problem?
If you think you see the beach ball more often than you would've liked, you might want to try defragmenting.
iDefrag is good, I hear DriveGenius is better.
There is another way though: clone your drive to an external one (using ie. Carbon Copy Cloner, free) and either swap drives after that or run the system from the external drive and clone it back to the main one. The files will come back nicely arranged, just like after a defragmentation.Even Apple agrees it can be helpful:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT13…More info:
http://discussions.apple.com/mes…- Another Carbon Copy Cloner benefit is that you end up with a full backup drive that you can add backups incrementally to laterrafalski
- MSL0
Macs run a cleanup early in the morning - so if you leave the Mac on it'll do it automatically.
http://discussions.apple.com/thr…
I was under the impression that OSX defragments on the fly so there is no real need to run a standalone defragmentation app.
- forcetwelve0
thx for the info rafalski!
- ********0
forcetwelve. Are you using a old PowerPC Mac or something. WTF.
- johnnnnyh0
off topic slightly but i was told we neededto defrag the sky+ box so I'm thinking all the view that the HD technology has made this practice redundant might be incorrect.
- kalkal0
Open terminal and type:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
And defrag messes up the hfs+ spotlight index even if you get an app that does it
- bulletfactory0
i thought it automatically cleaned up after itself (any file < 100mb) so no defrag necessary - did i make that up?
- harv0
All Mac's defrag over night. Really no need.