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F****n MAC'S
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:34 pm
by toxin
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..
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:44 pm
by ether
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:49 pm
by metalboxproducts
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?
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:50 pm
by toxin
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?
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:14 pm
by paulypaul
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:45 pm
by toxin
thanks for the tip....
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:46 pm
by cjpa
indeed. no need to defragment a mac-filesystem if you run OSX.
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:59 am
by chef wigabu
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 ....
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:14 pm
by mudda
I thought 'Repairing Disk Permissions' (can't remember where in Utilities) was similar?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:16 pm
by rich_c90
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