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Disk Optimization: What's happening?
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Big-C
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Feb 24, 2004, 03:03 PM
 
When you load software or updates on your machine, and it sits there for a few minutes at the end "Optomizing Disk...", what exactly his happening?

- Is something actually happening to the file system?
- Is some database being optimized?
- Is it just running the permission's fix thing from Disk Utility?

Does anybody know?
     
Vader�s Pinch of Death
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Feb 24, 2004, 03:12 PM
 
Prebinding.

"If it's broke, you choke."
     
Big-C  (op)
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Feb 24, 2004, 03:14 PM
 
Thanks!

I found this link that made things a little clearer, in case someone else is interested...

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100490/sto...Explained.html
     
Appleman
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Feb 24, 2004, 04:26 PM
 
Originally posted by Big-C:
I found this link that made things a little clearer, in case someone else is interested...

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100490/sto...Explained.html
Interesting.
     
   
 
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