Harry, So great to see you today, been far too long. In TechTools Pro8 one of the modules is defrag if you think you should do first.
John Sent from my iPad > On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com> wrote: > > I ran disk warrior again on the time machine drive. This time I turned off > Time Machine and ran disk warrior from my mac not from the jump drive. > > I received the same message- make available 5100 mb of contiguous disk space > > The disk has 13.64 gb of free space. Go figure. > > I can not find a defrag function on disk tools. > > I guess I will try what you suggest Lee. > > Thanks. > > > >> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Lee Larson <leelar...@me.com> wrote: >> >> On Jun 27, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> My question: How do I create 5100 mb of contiguous free space on my >>> TimeMachine disk or any disk for that matter. >> >> The first thing to check is if there’s at least 5100 MB of space available >> on the disk. If not, you’ll have to delete some stuff. >> >> Given there’s enough space on the disk, you’ll have to defragment it >> somehow. DiskWarrior has defragmentation capability, as do most other disk >> utilities such as TechTool—but not Apple’s Disk Utility. Another way is to >> copy the files to another disk, delete them from the original and copy them >> back. >> >> I’ve not defragged a Mac this century, so I don’t know how well the tools in >> DiskWarrior and TechTool do the job. It’s generally not necessary, unless >> you regularly work with files that are so individually huge they take up a >> large portion of your hard drive. With drives in the multi-TB range, this is >> getting pretty uncommon. If you find you really need to defrag a drive, you >> probably need a bigger drive. >> >> L^2 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
