defragment mac
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- ********0
OSX basically isn't finished in my opinion.
Anyone who thinks it magically cleans up after itself is wrong. There STILL is not a central uninstaller that will remove every trace of whatever program I want to remove, including all of it's preferences etc.... And I'm not talking about commercial stuff.
It should be in there by standard, and it's not.
- PIZZA0
Moth, preferences are just a bunch of text/xml files sat in a folder not hurting anybody. It's not like Windows where all preferences were stored in a central database.
- Jurre0
anyway, sorry if my emotional rant about my instable computer (and it is just a computer) upsets people, my question about windows 7 is serious but unanswered. I did not see the insulting comments about problems coming though :-). Should have know better i guess, but yeah, i sounded like a whining bitch I guess. It's just a tool that needs to work for me, and it doesn't. Wouldn't that upset anybody?
- zombee0
Just found this. It states it's for 10.5, but if you're running 10.6 it may also work. Probably worth just backing up before hand.
"If you wish to defragment free space on a drive here's how to do it quite easily.
Using Disk Utility, repartition your drive, giving the strict minimum space required for the original volume, and then create a second volume with the remaining available space. This takes time, as all your data will be joined on the volume that is resized but not erased. Then when finished, get rid of the volume you just created, giving back all available space to the original volume. This part is fast. That's it; you're done.
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one, but 10.5's Disk Utility will supposedly allow partitioning without erasing the existing data. If you're going to try this hint, I strongly suggest you have a good backup first, just in case things go wrong. Note that Apple states most users do not need to defragment -- there will be little benefit to the typical user, thanks to OS X's built-in tools to handle fragmentation.]"
- ********0
Most of the newer drive does not require defragmenting. Unless you are loading and unloading large amount of files.
- hektor9110
I've had two imacs for 4 years and they are working fine the typical updates and upgrades. So far they are working just fine. With a PC I would've been looking for a new computer with in a year....