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Do we need to defrag Mac like PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="Surfside" data-source="post: 1315770" data-attributes="member: 190345"><p>I've got a problem with my "new" refurbished iMac, so I tho't I would do some research in here before i went any further. I don't know if anyone is still monitoring this thread, but I looked over all of the posts, and I think I know a couple of things I'll try that were recommended.</p><p></p><p>My iMac is a lot slower now than when i got it 1.5 months ago. My issue is that I have moved a LARGE amount of files in and out of this iMac, and I don't know if that has affected the speed. My wife is a photographer, and we have been waiting for the day that we could upgrade from PC to Mac, but I am still scratching my head with how to go about fixing this. On my PC, I would just defrag the computer and it should pretty much return back to normal speed, for the most part. With this iMac, I am just not sure what I should/can do to get back to my original speeds.</p><p></p><p>Because my iMac was so much faster as burning discs than my PC, I moved a bunch of large (10MB+) images files over to the iMac, burnt the images to discs, then I deleted the image files to make room for more image files to burn. I have a 1TB hard drive. All-in-all, I probably moved a total of 1.5TB of image files onto and off of the iMac, just so I could burn them to disc faster. I now have about 700GB still on the iMac, but everything seems slow: web browsing, navigating thru Finder, opening programs, etc. I would greatly appreciate any advice that anyone can offer. It may be a simple fix, but I am not over that learning curve, yet.</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Surfside, post: 1315770, member: 190345"] I've got a problem with my "new" refurbished iMac, so I tho't I would do some research in here before i went any further. I don't know if anyone is still monitoring this thread, but I looked over all of the posts, and I think I know a couple of things I'll try that were recommended. My iMac is a lot slower now than when i got it 1.5 months ago. My issue is that I have moved a LARGE amount of files in and out of this iMac, and I don't know if that has affected the speed. My wife is a photographer, and we have been waiting for the day that we could upgrade from PC to Mac, but I am still scratching my head with how to go about fixing this. On my PC, I would just defrag the computer and it should pretty much return back to normal speed, for the most part. With this iMac, I am just not sure what I should/can do to get back to my original speeds. Because my iMac was so much faster as burning discs than my PC, I moved a bunch of large (10MB+) images files over to the iMac, burnt the images to discs, then I deleted the image files to make room for more image files to burn. I have a 1TB hard drive. All-in-all, I probably moved a total of 1.5TB of image files onto and off of the iMac, just so I could burn them to disc faster. I now have about 700GB still on the iMac, but everything seems slow: web browsing, navigating thru Finder, opening programs, etc. I would greatly appreciate any advice that anyone can offer. It may be a simple fix, but I am not over that learning curve, yet. Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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