It would be as to compare the Sky with a Thought.
They are two completely different, and indispensable Tools, meant for dissimilar objectives.
The desire to "DE-FRAGMENT" an OS/X'd Hard Drive, as one would an OS/9, is to be STRONGLY AVOIDED!
UNIX, the underpinnings of OS/X, handles FILES, and everything else, for that matter, very differently from OS/9, and all before. It DOES NOT lend itself to 'De-Fragmentation', as we knew it in Pre OS/X Operating Systems.
Any unwise attempt to 'FORCE' OS/X through this exercise, as SIMANiaTEC does, can cause drastic, and potentially irreversible damage to a SYSTEM.
"Fragmentation", as we use to know it Pre OS/X, does not present a problem under UNEX. SHUTDOWN, (as adverse to RESTART), and START-UP from Cold Boot, pretty-much handles any 'House-keeping' OS/X requires;:
<http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html>
a FREE Application, handles the rest.
Above is an extremely general, and superficial 'overview?)' of OS/X 'De-Fragg' question.
The DEFINITIVE Word on this, and ALL things MAC/OS/X is to be found here:
<http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html>
Surely, if there is a MAC GOD, this is HE! From His lips, to APPLE's ear. If He doesn't cover it, you don't NEED to know it. You can NOT spend a wasted moment here.
This should be Your very First, and Singular "BookMark" for ALL things MAC!
Your very first dollar spent on Your MAC, after purchase, should be on DISKWARRIOR and TECHTOOL PRO.
MH 2cents worth...
e. -- Hail MAC!
On Oct 30, 2004, at 3:36 PM, dan_A wrote:
On Oct 30, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 30/10/04 13:22, Larry le Mac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Mikael Byström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For what it does, yes, it is the best IMHO. It doesn't exactly match the feature set of Techtool though.
It seems to focus on recovery more that preventive.
DiskWarrior is a life saver and fixes and rebuilds your fragmented directory (which happens in time with normal use on all computers)... a unique solution and supremely effective. The latest version, 3.02 is the only one that works with OS 10.3.5. The previous versions came with a separate disk defragger... unfortunately they no longer make it available on the DW CD. If it still exists, you would have to buy it separately. Techtool is a way to go. But whatever else you have for disk maintenance/recovery, you should invest in DW because no other utility does the type of fix it does. It has recovered a zonked drive many times for me... I love it.
PS- I'm not affiliated with Alsoft, the maker of DiskWarrior.
dan_A
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