defrag?

[juan123]

Hey guys,

I have a 80gb HD in my ibook and i have about 9gb free. I noticed that it is severely fragemented. I have tried iDefrag and it seems like it isn't really doing much. Then I also tried to delete and copy my files back. It turns out that my files are no longer fragmented but my free space is still severely fragmented. What tips do you guys have to help this?

 

[Cory5412]

I'd leave the machine open and running (you can set up energy saver settings to turn the display backlight off while still having the machine itself running) a few nights, at about 3 a.m. nightly and on a certain weekly and monthly date, systems run a variety of little maintenance tasks.

Another thing you can do is boot from a CD and use the Disk Utility to erase free space.

 

[equill]

Visit Brian Hill and download MacJanitor. It performs the wee-small-hours cron scripts for Macs (10.3.x and down) that are not left on overnight.

You are asking a lot from a drive so full. Even if files of <20MB are defragmented on the fly by OS X without any intervention from you, the non-contiguous free space is not also defragmented. 90% of capacity is too full for a drive even when the housekeeping is perfect. You need to archive off some files, or to upgrade your drive.

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