[MacDV] Toast/copying DVD-R

[KS]

Jim,

What's your opinion of Tech Tool for degragging.  I haven't defragged 
since OS9 since I've read mixed reviews of whether or not to do this 
procedure --- especially with OSX Panther.  Your thoughts, please.

Karl

On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:04 AM, James Asherman wrote:

>
> On Thursday, January 6, 2005, at 09:20  PM, lanny cotler wrote:
>
>> James Asherman <jimash at optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> So, since write speed and underrun protection are not noteworthy, we 
>>> must assume the guise of Hemlock Solmes and deduce the cause of 
>>> these errors.
>>>  Firstly I would say that in the Toasting upgrades I have kept quite 
>>> a few versions and using one of the 5.xx versions might work better.
>>>  Also I am reminded of  the case of the queasy iMac.
>>> A gentleman called saying that, while running FCP on his one drive 
>>> iMac it would stop capture after two minutes, with a "disc full" 
>>> message, despite the fact that he had 20 gigs left on his drive.
>>>  I asked if he had saved anything since last it worked. Why yes he 
>>> had, a song he saved from the last job.
>>>  "Delete that", said I ." and your problems will vanish". And they 
>>> did due to the fact that we had "speed disked" his disk to have 
>>> contiguous free space previously.
>>>  So , your problem Lanny, might be that your disc is fragmented.
>>> Jim
>>
>>
>> Okay, Jim, what do you mean "...we had 'speed disked' his disk to 
>> have contiguous free space previously"? If there were 20 gigs 
>> available.......??
>>
>> What is the best way to de-frag my drive? Just the boot drive, or all 
>> partitions on that drive?
>>
>> thanks
>> L
>>
>
> Norton Speed disk. Or some other appropriate defragmenting optimizer.
> Don't use disk doctor , just speed disk.
> Mostly the boot drive, and whatever area you assign to those 
> "converted items".
> You need this. I am not partial to partitions, but make sure you have 
> a nice big one for the Boot. Because these conversions of 4 gig take 
> at least 4 gig  open to do, and also you have to account for memory 
> swappage and so forth. Meanwhile a small file in the middle of 
> otherwise blankspace (which you ain't got anyhow) will stop the whole 
> show as in the "case of the queasy iMac".
>
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