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You really shouldn't need to defragment your drive. For the most part, OS X takes care of defragmentation automatically.
That's what I thought until I got a look at the graphic showing what free space (hardly any) is available, and the sheer volume of fragmented files.
Then again, perhaps I'm putting too much importance on contiguous space?
Does having so many fragments and so little contiguous space NOT effect performance?
I was able to reorganize the directories...which started out in much the same shape and ended up neat and tidy.
Then again, perhaps I'm putting too much importance on contiguous space?
Does having so many fragments and so little contiguous space NOT effect performance?
Not significantly.
Are you planning to upgrade to Leopard? That would be a good time to back up your disk and wipe it out anyway.
Good question...and good point.
I hadn't thought about upgrading. Are there likely to be significant benefits...and will my pokey 1gb 'puter be able to handle it?
Must do research!
eta: Apropos of this...lifehacker has suggestions for cleaning up your Mac to prepare for Leopard. They point to a free utility that provides an inventory of what is on your system and how much space it takes.
Perfect!
(please forgive, if this is old news)
Disc Inventory X turned out to be great. It gave me a visual sense of there my spacehogs lie...which leads me into an area I never expected to tread...
My biggest offenders are Jonathan Creek ahems...19gb. I'd like to burn the episodes off onto discs but the Toast 6 lite that came with my Lacie d2 DVD RW does not accept avi files.
Anyone have experience with this and/or advice?
If you just need to back up/free up some space, you'll be able to fit a lot more on a DVD if you use it as a data disk. If you want DVD's that you can watch with a DVD player, ffmpegX has converted just about anything I've ever thrown at it -- I'm not sure what formats your copy of toast will handle, but ffmpegX can probably produce them.
iPhone question. How do you highlight to read the white font in b.org?
I thought I recalled someone saying it couldn't be done. But maybe I'm thinking of some other web phone.
iPhone question. How do you highlight to read the white font in b.org?
You don't.
Along with copy and paste not being possible.
that is what I was suspecting, but I've only had it for less than one day, so I don't know everything about it yet.
Eta: ya the no copy/paste makes it harder to quote
