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Defrag on Mac?
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Disk Warrior works magically for me. Any time I see some system-slowdown I run it.
Also, I’ve found that running Onyx (especially after Disk Warrior) tends to help, too. Beware, however, that I’ve actually heard some bad things about running Onyx. For me, I’ve used it for a year and I’ve never had any issues arise from using it. Others, here, may say otherwise.
And, of course, you definitely want to capture your media to a non-system hard drive.
everett
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The Apple Genius is an idiot or at least a fancifully creative problem solver.
The Macintosh OS does not performa any defragmentation in the background. MacOS10 does a bunch of file management operations all by itself but only if it is left on for months at a time. Tools like Mac Janitor will run the file maintenance applications on command. These are largely benign and invisible cache and tracking files. Tens of thousands of them are created every day.
Your Mac OS will not look at your file structure and defragment media files. Your Mac will not optimize your file structure which is different from defragging in that optimization places the most-accessed files at the fastest parts of the drives.
The easiest and safest way to defragment a drive is to clone it, erase it, and then clone it back.
There are tremendous risks in running any defragmentation utility without making a clone FIRST.https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070301091515843
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
bogiesan
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David I do not appreciate you calling my friend an idiot.
It seems that you did not fully read that kbase article from Apple there, because it actually says that OSX does to some basic defrag. I never said it did a complete defrag but it does do a basic defrag.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
I quote the artical
“Mac OS X 10.2 and later includes delayed allocation for Mac OS X Extended-formatted volumes. This allows a number of small allocations to be combined into a single large allocation in one area of the disk.”
Sounds like a basic defray to me.
And another part.
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther can also automatically defragment such slow-growing files. This process is sometimes known as “Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering.”
Yes it says 10.3, but if 10.3 did it then surly 10.5 also does.
I think you should fully read an article that you list as your proof not doing so makes you look like the idiot.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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As long as I know, defragging is not only not necessary but can even make things worst.
In fact Mac OSX chop big files so can acces them more easily.
My recommendation is to forget about defragg and think more about a System well optimized: Diskwarrior, TechTools, Drive Wizzard..
rafael -
Hi.
I think if you have clone copy etc it does not hurt to test stuff out. It is pretty easy to see if afterwards read and write times are better. Probably the structure questions mather but i think if all files are choped up it some times affects video playback as seek time gets longer.
But always there are different visons and results so one should test otions and see what goes better fo the needs.
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Margus
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[Margus Voll] ” Probably the structure questions mather but i think if all files are choped up it some times affects video playback as seek time gets longer”
If the file is chopped is not much important. The matteris that the system can find easily the chops. Clean directories (and permissions) is the way.
Cheers,
rafael
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