Do you defrag your Mac HD?

[yudilks]

I guess I will post something contrary to popular belief here, I have defragmented my Hard Drive. When I was trying to install Windows via Bootcamp, it told me that there was an immovable file on my HD. After trying to bypass this error every other way, I resorted to using iDefrag and it sorted out all of my problems. Mind you, I would not support buying Defragmentation software for most users, but sometimes errors like this pop up when the default auto-defrag isn't good enough (they should at least have an option for a full defrag, IMHO)

Weird, never heard of that problem. You sure the file wasn't just in use?

Exactly what I've posted in my previous post... Mac OS X is good to keep an individual file from fragmenteation, BUT the whole HD is still fragmented... You can imagine in other OS, the files are fragmented and scattered, but in Mas OS X the files are clustered (not fragmented, but still spread all over the HD)...

So it is possible in Mernak's case that an application or important system files were located at the very end of his HD partition such that it cannot be moved when he/she wanted to resize the partition... iDefrag moves that file, arrange the Mac HD such that it's no longer clustered.

 

[NAG]

You shouldn't have a system file out there unless you were doing some weird installs. I think the more likely scenario is that there was an application running.

 

[cdavi060]

I guess I will post something contrary to popular belief here, I have defragmented my Hard Drive. When I was trying to install Windows via Bootcamp, it told me that there was an immovable file on my HD. After trying to bypass this error every other way, I resorted to using iDefrag and it sorted out all of my problems. Mind you, I would not support buying Defragmentation software for most users, but sometimes errors like this pop up when the default auto-defrag isn't good enough (they should at least have an option for a full defrag, IMHO)

same thing happened to me too..im going to try a defrag when i get home.

 

[MightyBrutus]

My G4 Mac Mini goes probably 10X faster after doing a defrag.
Also, it used to make a loud clicking noise CONSTANTLY, but after the defrag all I hear is smoooooth processing.

 

[Frozonecold]

I have never defraged a mac and never will, because none of my macs have ever run slowly. If it ain't broken don't fix it, eh?

 

[soms]

Nope. I've heard its pointless

 

[Ploki]

my samples are scattered all over the samples drive.
it takes gazzillion times to load, my pc loaded them faster after i defragmented it. i will try it with mac too. its a sample-only drive, everything else is on the main drive.

 

[Ntombi]

Not in 20+ years of having Macs.

 

[gnasher729]

If there is an absolute no need to defrag, then why are people wasting their time writing software for defragment?

Because if one percent of all Macintosh users pay you 20 dollars for completely useless defragmentation software, that is an awful lot of money.

I should really write a defrag utility for the iPhone and sell it for five dollars

 

[Insulin Junkie]

Defrag isn't necessary with a mac. One of the joys of owning a mac is not having to defrag and not having to invest in anti-virus software. I mean there is anti virus software available for mac, and you can defrag a mac, but why would you want to unneccessarily re-create the Windows experience on your mac? =D
I'm also loving that I don't need to shut it down every time I'm done with it.

 

[GSMiller]

I never even defragmented on Windows.

 

[Amdahl]

Defrag isn't necessary with a mac. One of the joys of owning a mac is not having to defrag. ... you can defrag a mac, but why would you want to unneccessarily re-create the Windows experience on your mac? =D
I'm also loving that I don't need to shut it down every time I'm done with it.

You can't defeat the laws of information/computer science, no matter how many Steve Jobs' you throw at the problem.

Next stop, Grand Central!

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

You can't defeat the laws of information/computer science, no matter how many Steve Jobs' you throw at the problem.

Next stop, Grand Central!

What are you talking about? you never (except in extremely rare situations) have to defrag your hard disk.