Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

I purchased TechTools Pro yesterday. When I ran "preview optimization" to see how fragmented the disk is I got this message: Volume Directory is fragmented. It is not safe to optimize Restart from an eDrive: From the original volume to a new empty volume do

Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > The disk has 13.64 gb of free space. Go figure. It’s still very possible you don’t have 5.1 GB of contiguous free space, which is what DiskWarrior wants. That 13.64 GB might be scattered all over the disk in small

Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

Hello Harry, Perhaps another app to consider is [ iDefrag 5 ] from . Their current version 5 supports Mac OS X ver. 10.11. Shouldn’t be a problem if running from your system disk to defrag your time machine disk (run from different start-up disk if altering the

Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

Nice to see you too, John. Unforntunately, I do not Tech Tools Pro in any version compatible to my current machines. If I still have Tech Tool it’s several years old. Perhaps I will invest in it. Harry > On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:57 PM, John Robinson wrote: > > Harry, >

Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

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 wrote: > > I ran disk warrior again on the time machine drive.

Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

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

Re: [MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

On Jun 27, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer 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

[MacGroup] Disk Warrior question

I was having some issues with my hard drive and I ran disk warrior. It replaced the directory and then I ran disk warrior on my external TimeMachine drive. It found a lot of issues and recommended that I create 5100 mb of free contiguous space on the drive before replacing the old directory