At 5:08 PM -0600 1/6/2010, David Colvin wrote:
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?
Correct.
The overkill of reformatting instead of just re-loading aside, the
real point of doing that was to defragment the files on the disk. In
the classic Mac OS, this would give a pretty good performance boost,
especially if you used apps like Photoshop and processed lots of mid
sized files.
A number of improvements have been made to the HFS file system since
then, to reduce fragmentation and fix the performance issue. Plus,
OS X watches things and does critical defragging automatically, as
you use the machine.
- Dan.
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