[iHanhauser]

How do you Defrag your HD, or what do you do to clean it up .... IM new to macs.


Andy

[mrmister]

You don't really need to, though some swear that they see some improvement in speed--you'd use either Norton Utilities, Drive 10 or DiskWarrior.

[gatorparrots]

Or you can use Carbon Copy Cloner or ditto, if you have another partition.

[urrl5201]

I used Norton on my 667 and the hard drive died beyond recovery eventually. I have been eying Norton suspiciously ever since. Diskwarrior was great using the Plus Optimizer (defragger), but the new OSX version yet to come out does not include it. I may eventually try Drive 10.

[iohead]

Originally posted by iHanhauser:
How do you Defrag your HD, or what do you do to clean it up .... IM new to macs.


Andy

You don't need to - unless you really want to pay some money to Norton or whatever other software vendors who make such software

-A

[CyberPet]

I'm one of those that swears that defrag does help. Not so much for speed but the fact that the computer seem to run cooler when it doesn't have to scuff around the harddrive so much.

Although there's really no good tools yet for Mac OS X to defragment the harddrive, it's a long process (several hours). The only one so far is Drive 10 from Micromat, but they are going to release TechTool Pro 4 very shortly and the KING of disk maintenance, Alsoft, is releasing version 3 of DiskWarrior (however without their optimize tool, that'll come later).