[MacDV] Re: Toast/copying DVD-R

[sb]

The best, cheapest, and fastest way to defrag a hard drive is to copy all
the files over to another one, erase the disk using the disk tool>erase
disk, and then copy the files back over.

 regards,

 sb


On 1/7/05 9:53 PM, "Lanny Cotler" <lcotler at saber.net> wrote:

>> On Friday, January 7, 2005, at 10:10  AM, KS wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> I haven''t used TechTool for this. It seems a good choice.
>> I don't know whether there is any extra inherent danger of doing it
>> with Panther,
>> but if you deal with large files like video captures and DVD conversions,
>> contiguous free space is critical, regardless of what you may hear.
>> Jim
> 
> 
> Jim, does this mean that for us videon(a)uts we should be defragging
> often? And there are no inherent problems with doing this??