Thanks for the lesson. Thats good to know. In the late 1990's, I was taking some graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator etc.)and I had a teacher tell me that I should back everything up and do a clean install about once a year.
So, you are saying back then, it was okay but not a good thing on OS X? > Reformatting a running drive shouldn't be necessary and is not advised. > Reformatting involves blowing away the soft bad-block map (the hard, aka > manufacturer's, map is retained). That leaves you with a file system that > will potentially use marginal blocks for your data. > > The performance improvement, with the classic Mac OS, comes from the > out-and-back defrag. Backup, initialize the drive, reload it - the files > are put on contiguously. Unnecessary under OS X, as the same performance > improvement there comes from running simple maintenance tasks. OS X does > the important defragging automatically. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ >
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