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Apple Computing Products:
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Defrag fo the IMAC?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 369061" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Yup, what I have read is that Macs pretty much defrag at the file level on the fly. They do not scatter pieces of a file all over - instead, each file is usually rewritten to a fully consecutive set of blocks. Hence, individual files are pretty much never fragmented. </p><p></p><p>This works well until your disk is nearly at capacity, at which point, OS X may need to start going block by block. However, at this point, fragmentation of an individual file is the least of your worries - you need more disk, or free up of existing space, anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 369061, member: 17052"] Yup, what I have read is that Macs pretty much defrag at the file level on the fly. They do not scatter pieces of a file all over - instead, each file is usually rewritten to a fully consecutive set of blocks. Hence, individual files are pretty much never fragmented. This works well until your disk is nearly at capacity, at which point, OS X may need to start going block by block. However, at this point, fragmentation of an individual file is the least of your worries - you need more disk, or free up of existing space, anyway. [/QUOTE]
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