[X4U] Defrag utility for Tiger

[Vince Lewis]

On May 16, 2005, at 4:38 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

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> On May 16, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Steve Martin wrote:
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>
>> 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
>
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>

If you intend to "defrag" a disk, best practices suggests that you  
back it up first. At that point, you have a completely "defragged"  
disk--the backup-- and another one that can be erased in about 30  
seconds. Add in a simple disk restore operation and you now have two  
"defragged" disks with the exact same data. No extra software, no  
dangerous operations--this is the reason the guys at Alsoft dropped  
their defragger, and it probaby took less time than the kludge.  
Assumption: anyone doing much video with only one drive is needlessly  
torturing themself. This looks like a perfect reason to figure out  
"Automator."
ciao,
Vince
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