Hi all,

I'm running a dual boot system and I'm trying to defragment all my
drives via Speed Disk. I have no problem taking care of my OS9 disk,
however, I'm a little spooked to run Norton on my OSX boot
drive....the last time I did, I had to re-install EVERYTHING! Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

I just found this group, and I must say it's great!

Thanks
Catfish

In article ,
(Catfish) wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running a dual boot system and I'm trying to defragment all my
drives via Speed Disk. I have no problem taking care of my OS9 disk,
however, I'm a little spooked to run Norton on my OSX boot
drive....the last time I did, I had to re-install EVERYTHING! Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

I just found this group, and I must say it's great!

Thanks
Catfish



Don't do it.... the results will be as you predicted. OSX (being UNIX
based) does it's own defrags on the fly - or more specifically doesn't
fragment as much. This is why you need about 1GB of unused space for
OSX to have its enormous swap files.

Instead of running a separate defrag, leave the Mac on overnight every
now and then (not put to sleep) to let it run some crontabs at about
2:00 AM - this will clean out some temp files as well.

All will be well without any defrags...

Charlie,

You da MAN!

I have been trying to figure out this osx thing for a year and can't
find any get smart files anywhere. Can you direct me to some tutorials
or anything that might help me get a little more educated on this system?

Thanks either way.

Charlie wrote:
In article ,
(Catfish) wrote:


Hi all,

I'm running a dual boot system and I'm trying to defragment all my
drives via Speed Disk. I have no problem taking care of my OS9 disk,
however, I'm a little spooked to run Norton on my OSX boot
drive....the last time I did, I had to re-install EVERYTHING! Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

I just found this group, and I must say it's great!

Thanks
Catfish




Don't do it.... the results will be as you predicted. OSX (being UNIX
based) does it's own defrags on the fly - or more specifically doesn't
fragment as much. This is why you need about 1GB of unused space for
OSX to have its enormous swap files.

Instead of running a separate defrag, leave the Mac on overnight every
now and then (not put to sleep) to let it run some crontabs at about
2:00 AM - this will clean out some temp files as well.

All will be well without any defrags...

Danny Taddei wrote:
Charlie,

You da MAN!

I have been trying to figure out this osx thing for a year and can't
find any get smart files anywhere. Can you direct me to some tutorials
or anything that might help me get a little more educated on this system?


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

You guys are the best.

I've been trying to figure out the osX thing for a while.

So shall I keep defraging my audio drives if my Pro Tools and DP files
are os9 based?

Catfish

In article . net,
Danny Taddei wrote:

!Charlie,
!
!You da MAN!
!
!I have been trying to figure out this osx thing for a year and can't
!find any get smart files anywhere. Can you direct me to some tutorials
!or anything that might help me get a little more educated on this system?

You may also want to check these pages out:

http://www.macosxhints.com/
http://www.osxfaq.com/

!
!Thanks either way.
!
!Charlie wrote:
! In article ,
! (Catfish) wrote:
!
!
!Hi all,
!
!I'm running a dual boot system and I'm trying to defragment all my
!drives via Speed Disk. I have no problem taking care of my OS9 disk,
!however, I'm a little spooked to run Norton on my OSX boot
!drive....the last time I did, I had to re-install EVERYTHING! Any
!help would be greatly appreciated.
!
!I just found this group, and I must say it's great!
!
!Thanks
!Catfish
!
!
!
!
! Don't do it.... the results will be as you predicted. OSX (being UNIX
! based) does it's own defrags on the fly - or more specifically doesn't
! fragment as much. This is why you need about 1GB of unused space for
! OSX to have its enormous swap files.
!
! Instead of running a separate defrag, leave the Mac on overnight every
! now and then (not put to sleep) to let it run some crontabs at about
! 2:00 AM - this will clean out some temp files as well.
!
! All will be well without any defrags...

--
KelL
AFTRA
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses."
--Sir Arthur C. Clarke

thanks~!

S O'Neill wrote:
Danny Taddei wrote:

Charlie,

You da MAN!

I have been trying to figure out this osx thing for a year and can't
find any get smart files anywhere. Can you direct me to some tutorials
or anything that might help me get a little more educated on this system?


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

In article ,
(Catfish) wrote:

You guys are the best.

I've been trying to figure out the osX thing for a while.

So shall I keep defraging my audio drives if my Pro Tools and DP files
are os9 based?

Catfish



After you've backed them up - yes.

Charlie

Definately back up!!! Bad things can and do happen. Symantec no longer
makes Norton Utilities. I have no proof but I believe they were having
issues with Norton System Works and compatibility issues. I've had
horrible problems with NSW version 2.0. So maybe the best thing was to
not play that game for them. Disk Warrior on the other hand from
Alsoft. Every studio should have a copy of that. So when you get the
prompt when the desktop loads "This disk cannot be read would you like
to initialize it?" click not pop in Disk Warrior and it should take
care of it. DW rebuilds your the directory structure of your hard
drive. It's awesome. Cheap too. Also the 2 am thing is for real. Leave
it on as much as possible. There are cron jobs that run nightly,
weekly and monthly.

garrett

Charlie wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Catfish) wrote:

You guys are the best.

I've been trying to figure out the osX thing for a while.

So shall I keep defraging my audio drives if my Pro Tools and DP files
are os9 based?

Catfish



After you've backed them up - yes.

Charlie