Yes it does. I picked up a copy of Drive Genius more for its capabilities to repair damaged drives etc. An expensive program, but one that is worth having in the toolkit for sure. I'm also working with Prosoft Engineering on some tweaks to their Data Rescue package, which is again,perhaps a little expensive for some, but another tool well worth having when you consider the cost of data recovery services. :)
On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Ashley Cox wrote: > Yes, true. there is a nice program called iDefrag if you really want to > defrag. But OSX does some defragmentation automatically. > > > On 03/04/2011 11:14, Scott Howell wrote: >> Hi Ashley, >> >> You are correct; however, if you work with large files or move a lot of data >> around, your drive can become fragmented and may require some help.I do not >> know about all the different utilities available, but I found Drive Genius >> at http://www.prosofteng.com that does a number of things as well as defrag >> the drive. Of course the most valuable features of this program is not >> defragging. >> >> Scott Howell >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Apr 3, 2011, at 5:04, Ashley Cox<ashleycox...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> there is little to know defragmenting needed, and the mac doesn't use a >>> registry. Repair permissions and check the disk using disc utility. Then >>> under applications in utilities, go into terminal. In the terminal, type >>> this: >>> sudo periodic daily weekly monthly >>> press enter, type your password, and press enter again. that'll run the >>> mac's built in maintanance scripts. >>> ash >>> >>> >>> On 03/04/2011 02:38, Alex Hall wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> Can anyone recommend some free utilities to defragment a hard drive >>>> and clear out registry? Here is how little I know about macs: do they >>>> even use a registry? Does the file system fragment like Windows' ntfs? >>>> I am asking on behalf of a friend who has an older mac with 10.4. TIA. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
