Defragmenting

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Hi, and Hello everyone. Glad I found this forum.

I have a problem with my iBook G3. Things seem to be so mingled on the hard drive, that my mac is acting weird. So I tought that I shoud defragment the drive. But how can I do it. I have no idea. I used to do it on my Classic one, but now i'm lost. Can someone help Please?

Jean
 

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Welcome to Mac Forums, ozark4. Defragmentation is not necessary, but a bit of maintenance wouldn't hurt. Download and run the maintenance tasks in Onyx and see if that makes things better.
 

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Hi, and Hello everyone. Glad I found this forum.

I have a problem with my iBook G3. Things seem to be so mingled on the hard drive, that my mac is acting weird. So I tought that I shoud defragment the drive. But how can I do it. I have no idea. I used to do it on my Classic one, but now i'm lost. Can someone help Please?

Jean

About the only program I know that can defragment OS X is iDefrag. Buy from here:

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php

Regards.
 
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Macs use a UNIX filesystem (HFS+). There's no need to defrag, because it should do it automatically. However, if your mac is acting weird you can go to disk utility, select your hard drive and click repair disk permissions. This will fix any files that are corrupted or not where they should be.
 
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Using your Admin account, you can execute all three maintenance scripts at once, as follows:

Launch Terminal, in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
At the Terminal prompt, type the following, exactly as written:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
Press Return.
Type your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
All three scripts will run in sequence. There is no visual feedback while the scripts execute. You will know they are completed when the Terminal prompt returns.

You can also run the scripts individually. For example, to run just the daily script, you would type the command:

sudo periodic daily
 

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