On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 07:41 AM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: > Dumb question, but when you guys use the term "optimize" a drive, is > that > just re-building the directory with Disk Warrior? No. DiskWarrior rebuilds and writes an optimized directory. Optimizing or defragmenting the drive with an app like PlusOptimizer (included with DiskWarrior) rewrites the entire disk without fragmenatation. This helps both the performance of your drive, and adds to the life of it. Daniel ************************** Daniel Beck danielbeck at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/danielbeck/ Tadayoshi Video Productions dbeck at tvp.jp.com http://tvp.jp.com Video solutions in Tokyo