General Mac software discussions: Defraggers For Mac
Defraggers For Mac
by mac-win_user - 11/25/06 12:14 PMI have been looking for a Macintosh Defragger for quite some time but i haven't managed to find one thats FREE. All i find are ones which are trial based and not permanent.
Is there any fellow Mac user who wishes to help me and enlighten me by telling me about a FREE Mac Defragger?
Thanks!
What do you think of this?
by R. Proffitt
- 11/25/06 12:24 PM
In reply to: Defraggers For Mac by mac-win_user
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
"There is also a chance that one of the files placed in the "hot band" for rapid reads during system startup might be moved during defragmentation, which would decrease performance."
Sounds like no gain here. Or the users are from Windows.
Bob
A convincing argument
by mrmacfixit - 11/25/06 2:04 PM
In reply to: What do you think of this? by R. Proffitt
That question keeps coming up in these forums.
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so... to answer your initial inquiry,
by boya84 - 11/25/06 8:54 PM In reply to: Defraggers For Mac by mac-win_userThere aren't any because they are unnecessary for *most* users. The only time you might consider them is of you are doing pro-grade work and have HUGE audio or HUGE video files and they need to be ONE BIG file and not fragmented or you are running an Xsan file server... But if you were doing that sort of work, you would not be looking for freeware.
Another way of doing this is to get an external drive or two (depending on your requirements) - perhaps you normally work on your in internal drive... when you *think* your huge files need to be defragmented, copy them to the external drive. Now they are no longer fragmented. Do you work. Trash the ones on the internal and copy the new docs on the external back to the internal. Poof, done.
When you install a new application or update the system in MacOSX, you will notice at the end of the install process that the files or system is being optimized... They are being defragmented and placed in the correct contiguous space as needed on the hard drive.
The reason this all happens relatively quickly is it is essentially done on the fly rather than every 3 or 6 or whatever months (as in the case of Windows). As with incremental back-up, near real time defragging takes less perceived time. The only folks who really think they need file defragging are Windows users (because the do), but they learn, over time, that Mac OSX does not need this to be done. In the Pre-OSX days, Mac hard drive defragging was indeed a requirement... but that's history.
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