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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 85148" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>Rather, OS X Panther automatically degragments files whenever they are opened.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Journalling and defragmenting are seperate things. Defragmenting consolidates files on disk for faster opening. (Panther also uses "hot file clustering," which groups frequently accessed files together, to improve performance.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Journalling helps to prevent errors in the event that a file system write is interrupted (by, say, a power outage.)</span></p><p></p><p>But anyway, <strong>trpnmonkey41</strong> is right in that no defragmenting is necessary.</p><p></p><p>So long as we're on the topic of maintenance, though...you might want to look into running cron jobs manually, though. Cron jobs are maintenance tasks that normally run very early in the morning. Since most people keep there Macs asleep or off at 3AM, they often don't get run. <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10491" target="_blank">MacJanitor</a> will do this on command.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 85148, member: 4134"] Rather, OS X Panther automatically degragments files whenever they are opened. [SIZE=1]Journalling and defragmenting are seperate things. Defragmenting consolidates files on disk for faster opening. (Panther also uses "hot file clustering," which groups frequently accessed files together, to improve performance.) Journalling helps to prevent errors in the event that a file system write is interrupted (by, say, a power outage.)[/SIZE] But anyway, [b]trpnmonkey41[/b] is right in that no defragmenting is necessary. So long as we're on the topic of maintenance, though...you might want to look into running cron jobs manually, though. Cron jobs are maintenance tasks that normally run very early in the morning. Since most people keep there Macs asleep or off at 3AM, they often don't get run. [URL=http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10491]MacJanitor[/URL] will do this on command. [/QUOTE]
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