- #HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP ARCHIVE#
- #HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP FULL#
- #HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP WINDOWS 10#
- #HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP FREE#
#HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP WINDOWS 10#
2 Does Windows 10 automatically defragment?.
#HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP FULL#
OS X does not like an almost full boot drive. I must say though that I didn't really feel any performance hit but that has happened in the past. Last time my drive was filling up I checked and found a 1.5GB file (a video) that was in approx 20000 fragments.
#HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP FREE#
If you let the drive get almost full and then clean up to get some free space and repeat the cycle a few times you can end up with some very fragmented files. Indeed, regular errors reported here might be the early signs of a drive failure. It's often used to recover a failed drive, but I use it routinely to prevent issues building up in the first place. One thing that might work better, faster, and more reliably is Disk Warrior, which rebuilds the disk directory - this in itself can get fragmented, and simply rebuilding the directly can often improve performance without defragmenting the entire drive. Even less obvious things can cause system problems, such as a poor/faulty USB hub. Repair permissions, and even simply try rebooting. Is the system really going slowly? Are you sure nothing else is causing it? Run less destructive options first perhaps - try clearing old caches and run maintenance scripts (use Onyx or Cocktail for example). My own feeling is to not fix anything unless it's obviously broken. It's quite possible for these corrupt files to end up being put into the next backup. Remember that any such process involves moving data around on the hard drive surface, and any minor blip (bug in the software, power surge, etc.) during these operations could result in data corruption, or even a non-functioning system.Įven with a comprehensive backup system, minor data corruption might not be noticed for some time - perhaps even months or years later (it could be an archived document, or some photos that are rarely looked at, but may have personal value). However, I'd also be wary of overdoing it too. It has been mentioned in the past that defragmenting an Aperture Library can be helpful to performance there. Pretty much the same outcome.Īs a rule, it makes little difference to the main system drive, although as mentioned heavy fragmentation can occur. But most of us would more likely back it all up and wipe it and then replace just what we wanted. In that case it might be wise, and certainly couldn't hurt. OTOH, in this case, if the OP is going through a full drive drive and cherry picking out the files they won't want to the trash, this could leave gaps in random areas that, if the drive fills up,Ĭause new large files to need to seek out these smaller spaces.
I might consider it for a drive handed down with files, but running a defragger on a modern Mac in regular use isn't really necessary, IMO. 05% back in responsiveness in this old dog of a MBP.
#HOW TO DEFRAG A MACBOOK PRO LAPTOP ARCHIVE#
If I've been working a bit on an internal where the space headroom has shrunken too much I might archive a bunch of large files to free up a large chunk and then just copy back in progress files and libraries (which would be then not as fragmented), but that's mostly just to pat myself on the back for being organized and gaining. Probably a good in concept to start with a clean slate every blue moon, but most things really don't fragment and affect performance with modern computers in the way it used to. System changes and files are handled with drive area in mind. Probably doesn't apply to this case, but I've checked large Aperture libraries that did become fairly fragmented, copied them, wiped (and opened more space for the heck of it) and copied back and did detect a very slight improvement.īut, yeah, the defragging that was wise to do periodically with System 7 on the SE is basically a thing of the past.
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