On May 16, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Steve Martin wrote: > I guess you didn't read what the original poster said... > > " At first, it would take about 30 minutes to import a 90-120 > minute movie into iMovie, now it takes a couple of hours. I am > thinking it is a fragmentation issue." > > For that type of application, he may very well be right and if it > cuts a couple of hours to 30 minutes, that would be a significant > performance gain. Yes, I did. But that's not a problem due to fragmentation; at worst, fragmentation would add a few minutes to that time, not "a couple of hours". There's an easy way to find out: wipe the drive and try again. Kirk Author of: How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France