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Mail.app database on secondary HD?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA.
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Does anyone have any ideas on this topic?
I'm thinking about setting up my Mail database using Mail.app on my 2nd (non-OS) HD, to prevent fragmentation all over the place on the primary OS HD.
Since I leave mail.app running (checking email every 10 minutes), this will make the 2nd HD never spindown.
Is this a bad idea?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Why are you so scared for fragmentation? The OS automatically organizes files when you open them, so the hard disk won't be fragmentated.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
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i thought OS X only defragments newly created files by putting them in contiguous sectors? [does it rearrange it after it's written?]
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Apr 2003
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With OS X the only time you might need to defrag is if you're doing some heavy digital video importing and work. But for normal usage OS X optimizes the directory and that's the key factor. It's not like OS 9 or PCs any more.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
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i will be doing dv work.
when you say optimizes, what exactly [technical] does OS X do?
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