[X4U] Mac OS X Routine Maintenance

[Shera]

Point being, in the document that I found on apple's sight there is  
some mention of a slight need to defrag when dealing with LARGE files.
But the average email reading, web browsing, itune listening Joe does  
not need to and will find no improvement in defragging. And as the  
document mentions it may even do more damage (ie slowing down the  
computer)

As far as an anti-virus tool,  there are not enough Mac virus's out  
there to get anyone interested in making a specific tool.

Try reading again:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
Here's another one:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html? 
artnum=19516

The file system is very simular to that of linux and unix, and after  
years of using both I have never had to defrag in anyway.  I am not  
trying to start another email war here, just mentioning that not  
everyone needs to run out and get a defrag program for fear of slow  
computers that may loose their data.   Let the windows users do  
that.  :)


-sHERA



On Sun:7 /9, at 4:35 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 7/9/06 7:48 AM, Shera <shera at techunlimited.net> wrote:
>
>> Think about it, don't you think that the people of apple would have
>> given or made a tool for defraging if it were an important issue,
>
> No. Defragmenting was much more important in the days of HFS and  
> Classic
> MacOS and yet Apple never provided a defragmentation tool.
>
>> they seem to cover everything else. There is even a tool to fix file
>> permissions that comes with the system.
>
> It wasn't until the third revision of OS X that Apple provided the  
> Repair
> Permissions ability.
>
> Bottom line: don't rely only on Apple's maintenance utilities,  
> which are
> limited in their scope, abilities and existence.
>
> -- 
> Eddie Hargreaves
>
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