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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Later Macs and the Spinning Beach Ball
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1810548" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Yes, that's a very rough rule of thumb, but not a hard rule.</p><p></p><p>I've seen hard drives that were less than 60% full that were so fragmented that they were virtually full, and I've seen hard drives that were over 90% full that were still running fine.</p><p></p><p>The thing that is actually important is how much free *continuous space* there is on a rotating disk hard drive for the Mac's system to work with.</p><p></p><p>Macintosh Routine Maintenance</p><p><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/rbb.html" target="_blank">Macintosh OS X Beachballs!</a></p><p>Item #5 and Note #1</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1810548, member: 190607"] Yes, that's a very rough rule of thumb, but not a hard rule. I've seen hard drives that were less than 60% full that were so fragmented that they were virtually full, and I've seen hard drives that were over 90% full that were still running fine. The thing that is actually important is how much free *continuous space* there is on a rotating disk hard drive for the Mac's system to work with. Macintosh Routine Maintenance [url=http://www.macattorney.com/rbb.html]Macintosh OS X Beachballs![/url] Item #5 and Note #1 [/QUOTE]
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