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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1524762" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Another note - if you have been moving large amounts of data on and off the machine, your HDD could very well have it's free space highly fragmented and have your data spread from one end of the drive to the other - this will slow down your computer.</p><p></p><p>You can download the trial of iDefrag to determine if this is the case.</p><p>If you need to defrag the drive, I highly recommend it.</p><p></p><p>To defrag for free (since you should already have one of these in use), you could use cloning software Superduper! or CarbonCopyCloner to clone to an external drive, boot to that external and after making sure all is well, clone it back to your internal drive. </p><p></p><p>In my experience, iDefrag will show a superior improvement in boot times and application launch times over the cloning method.</p><p></p><p></p><p>(Anyone with a SSD, don't be defragging your drive.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1524762, member: 24160"] Another note - if you have been moving large amounts of data on and off the machine, your HDD could very well have it's free space highly fragmented and have your data spread from one end of the drive to the other - this will slow down your computer. You can download the trial of iDefrag to determine if this is the case. If you need to defrag the drive, I highly recommend it. To defrag for free (since you should already have one of these in use), you could use cloning software Superduper! or CarbonCopyCloner to clone to an external drive, boot to that external and after making sure all is well, clone it back to your internal drive. In my experience, iDefrag will show a superior improvement in boot times and application launch times over the cloning method. (Anyone with a SSD, don't be defragging your drive.) [/QUOTE]
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