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offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-11 19:52 [#00859343]
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does anyone know how to defragment a mac... in osx?

thanks!

 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-09-11 19:57 [#00859348]
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throw it in the fucking lake and get a real computer

 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2003-09-11 19:57 [#00859349]
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apparently you need norton's speed disk utility to
defragment osx.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-11 19:58 [#00859350]
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What file format is the drive formatted as?

 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-11 19:58 [#00859351]
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Nooo don't use speed disk...unless you have backed up
absolutely everything and don't mind a high risk of your
computer fucking up on you.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-11 19:59 [#00859352]
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bah!

:'(

 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-11 20:03 [#00859355]
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Have you ever heard of Techtool Pro? I just phoned a mate
who has a Mac and apparently he swears by it (Well he said
"Mate, Techtools Pro is fuckin smart, he should deffo get
that")


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2003-09-11 20:15 [#00859360]
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Media Access Control/
layer 2 data link?

fuck ethernet

atm for life

SONET TIME

 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2003-09-11 21:15 [#00859407]
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You'll need a third party program

however...fragmentation is not as severe a problem in the
mac file system compared to windows, i have been told.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-09-11 21:28 [#00859419]
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i dunno... im just trying to optimize my cpu usage...



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-12 10:57 [#00860037]
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Well defrag won't make any difference to CPU usage, it just
speeds up the data read speed from the disk, and as xlr says
the OSX file systems don't suffer the effects of
fragmentation any where near as much as Windows does.


 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2003-09-12 11:02 [#00860047]
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I think you can choose two different filesystems for MacOSX
- HFS+ and UFS. HFS+ is the old Mac filesystem and needs
occasional defragmenting. UFS is the Berkeley fast
filesystem (from Unix) and doesn't need defragmenting.


 

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