Defragmenting????

[mazzy150]

Hi,i have just moved from pc to mac and i want to know how to defrag a mac,apparently you have to downloaad third party software?if you know any that are free please can you let me know.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

About disk optimization with Mac OS X

 

[jmmo20]

Hi,i have just moved from pc to mac and i want to know how to defrag a mac,apparently you have to downloaad third party software?if you know any that are free please can you let me know.

No need to defrag a mac manually,
The OS does the defragmenting part on its own and without you noticing.

 

[quigleybc]

Hi,i have just moved from pc to mac and i want to know how to defrag a mac,apparently you have to downloaad third party software?if you know any that are free please can you let me know.

Smarter Mac Heads will chime in here

But, you don't need to defrag anything in OS X

just restart your computer from time to time.

and maybe run disc permissions


welcome to the simplicty of OS X

 

[mazzy150]

thanks i dont believe how good mac is.

 

[Manzana]

great link by Mitthrawnuruodo

and i'll just chime in and say that if you freq work with large files, my guess is any single file that is 1/2 gig or bigger apple themselves recommend that you defragment the drive ( i believe it's in that link )

 

[Timepass]

well it not need so much on a moddern system (yes including XP) defragging became so imporant on a windows system back when they where still running under fat 32 but since windows moved over to NTFS defragging has margen gains at best on any sysstem. Even windows does minor defragging with small files lik HFS+ but like the above poster state if you are working with large files a lot everyone recomends getting a 3rd party defragger including apple and all system need it.