Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@...> wrote:
: 
: > None of the daily/weekly/monthly tasks that run overnight do anything
: > resembling a defrag.
: 
: True, it's just cleaning up logfiles and indexing the filesystem and stuff 
: like that.
: 
: > They mostly just clean up temp files, system log files 
: > and things like that. If you want your drive to be defragmented, you need
: > to do it manually.
: 
: No. The operating system defragments the filesystems while using them, like 
: any other decent Unix-based system does. When using Solaris, Linux or OSX 
: there is a simple rule: Do not defragment, it is both risky and useless.

The "defragmenting" that is done automatically is not really the same as
traditional defragmenting (and OS X doesn't defragment large files at all
automatically), but I agree that it's pretty much unnecessary.

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