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Originally Posted by simon12  So, in a nutshell (from a newcomer to Mac) what's a recommended program to run and how often would I use it? |
How about reading post #2 or 3?
Honestly I've had a Mac for 4 years and like you thought I should run an app once a week etc, but after some time I discontinued it and it really made no difference - Macs largely look after themselves. If you get a specific problem that's the time to do a little maintenance.
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Originally Posted by LFC_SL I am thinking getting a spare HD, taking all the video files off then putting back on should do it, no? |
Somewhere on here there was a ref to a good explanation of why it isn't necessary to defrag discs in OS X, if I find it I'll post it but the nub is that modern HDDs are so fast that typically when files are written to disc the complete file is written so the fragmentation is not significant. On Windows I'd defrag every week and now I have a utility to do it on OS X it doesn't seem from the summary report to be worthwhile.