I know what you mean about SSDs Sam, but £27 is rather cheaper than converting the 2TB drive in my iMac, and I have loads of audio files that are way over 20MB.
P PS. And like Stephen, my System Preferences app currently takes nearly 20 secs to open! ---- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] W: philward.biz W: audio-icons.com W: soundcloud.com/philberish W: peggysdiaries.wordpress.com • Freelance writer and product designer. • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. • UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. > On 15 Jan 2016, at 17:20, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anything under 20MB in size is automatically defragmented when opened. With > SSDs though it truly is a thing of the past ;) > > Sam > > <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> > <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> > <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > >> On 15 Jan 2016, at 17:05, Phil Ward <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hmm, that’s interesting. Fo some reason I thought disc defragging was a >> thing of the past and that OS X does it automatically. Did I dream that? >> >> P >> >> ---- >> Phil Ward >> >> Skype: aphilw >> E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> W: philward.biz <http://philward.biz/> >> W: audio-icons.com <http://audio-icons.com/> >> W: soundcloud.com/philberish <http://soundcloud.com/philberish> >> W: peggysdiaries.wordpress.com <http://peggysdiaries.wordpress.com/> >> >> • Freelance writer and product designer. >> • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. >> • UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com >> <http://www.veilletteguitars.com/>. >> >>> On 15 Jan 2016, at 17:01, [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I found my Mac to be getting very slow of late, just to login and launch >>> apps and open documents was becoming tedious and so bought a defragmenter >>> to see if it would help. >>> >>> I bought iDefrag which I ran last week and it seems to have produced >>> impressive results. Some things take about the same amount of time as >>> before but most things are quicker, and some dramatically so - system >>> preferences for example now takes two seconds to appear whereas before it >>> would take about 15! >>> >>> I reckoned that having a mid-2011 iMac (500GB disk and 12MB RAM) that had >>> had three OS upgrades (I think) and any number of point upgrades to the OS >>> along was probably in a messy state and indeed the fragmentation map seemed >>> to be red everywhere (bad news). >>> >>> The app is about £27 and is cheap speedup in my view. They say on their >>> site ( http://coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag/ >>> <http://coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag/> ) that it’s no help on an SSD drive. >>> >>> Just thought you may like to know. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Stephen >>> >>> >>> >>> BBC news November 2006: "China has some of the world's most polluted >>> rivers, and is accused of overlooking the protection of the environment to >>> develop its economy." >>> >>> Appalling. 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