Mac Defrag

cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
edited March 6, 2009 in Digital Darkroom
Is this something that we mac people do? I'm a recent convert and this morning did a lot of shuffling on my external HD....which previously I would have defragged afterwards on my pc.....:dunno

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited March 6, 2009
    cdonovan wrote:
    Is this something that we mac people do? I'm a recent convert and this morning did a lot of shuffling on my external HD....which previously I would have defragged afterwards on my pc.....ne_nau.gif

    You probably don't need to worry unless your disk got very full. Check this out. Have you noticed any performance issues? If not, it probably ain't broke...
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 6, 2009
    Interesting.

    I have not defragmented my drives since moving to the Apple world several years ago. I had almost forgotten that bit of care needed by some hard drives.

    Needless to say, I have not noticed any effect on my Macs due to my lack of diligencethumb.gif

    I would add that no hard drive is very happy when it becomes more than 80% filled with data, and I do not allow my drives to reach more than 80% filled before taking some kind of action to correct it.
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