F****n MAC'S

toxin · Post by **toxin** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:34 pm

Ez, does anyone know how to defrag Mac's? ive been using them for four years but have never done it.......?

Help would be much appreciated..

ether · Post by **ether** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:44 pm

you can get software that does it. but they dont recomend you do it as far as i can remmember.

probably better to back up to another drive, flatten it then reinstalll everything.

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:49 pm

ether wrote:you can get software that does it. but they dont recomend you do it as far as i can remmember.

probably better to back up to another drive, flatten it then reinstalll everything.

Yep. It takes a while but it's the best way. I've had to do it a couple of times. Just be really really REALLY carefull when you're saving the files you want to keep..

You know what i mean?

toxin · Post by **toxin** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:50 pm

thanks.........

appreciated.........

Backing up is always high on the agenda, ive got a seperate hard drive so i back up after every new beat i do.... it also holds all my samples...

If I partition the harddrive does it uninstall all apps automatically? if it does could this be an option?

paulypaul · Post by **paulypaul** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:14 pm

OS X is based on unix, which basically sorts itself out.

Just leave your machine on a few nights during the week, usually on Friday or Monday nights at about 2 in the morning you will hear your machine making noises - these are the weelky, monthy task being completed - including a sort of defrag of its own.

toxin · Post by **toxin** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:45 pm

thanks for the tip....

cjpa · Post by **cjpa** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:46 pm

indeed. no need to defragment a mac-filesystem if you run OSX.

chef wigabu · Post by **chef wigabu** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:59 am

paulypaul wrote:OS X is based on unix, which basically sorts itself out.

Just leave your machine on a few nights during the week, usually on Friday or Monday nights at about 2 in the morning you will hear your machine making noises - these are the weelky, monthy task being completed - including a sort of defrag of its own.

hehehehe the noises must be the scheduled indexing ....

mudda · Post by **mudda** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:14 pm

I thought 'Repairing Disk Permissions' (can't remember where in Utilities) was similar?

rich_c90 · Post by **rich_c90** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:16 pm

Mudda wrote:I thought 'Repairing Disk Permissions' (can't remember where in Utilities) was similar?

yeah, it is. i do that every couple of weeks and found it helps things run smoothly

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