[muglo] Re: defraggers worth watching

Doug,
   Thanks for the info. I think that would be a fun thing to do at a  
meeting, but you're right. It takes time. Thus, we would probably  
start it up in the very beginning of the meeting and it would still  
be whirring away while we are at coffee afterwards. On the OS9 issue,  
I am sure there are greater minds that will chime in on this, but I  
was told to scrap everything out of the folder first and then scrap  
the folder last.
Best wishes,
Joe Nolan

On 29-Jul-07, at 12:11 PM, Doug Bale wrote:

> It really is a visually fascinating thing to watch, Joe -- at least as
> Norton Utilities used to do it. You saw a real-time visual
> representation of the scattered bits of data being gathered up from
> various parts of the drive, held in readiness until space was cleared
> for them in their proper areas, and then deposited there. The various
> types of files -- system files, documents, applications, fonts and so
> on, were represented in different colours, so it was easy to  
> follow. If
> Techtool Pro, which Karl is talking about, does something more or less
> similar, it's well worth seeing; way more fun than a lava lamp ;-)
>
> It might well make a useful part of next meeting, if there's time, and
> if someone (Karl, perhaps?) has a copy. I'm certainly going to get  
> one,
> but likely not in time for September. I've just had to replace my  
> roof,
> and am in the process of replacing some windows, which has rather  
> blown
> the budget for a while. If I'm still solvent after that, the first
> software priority is a CS3 upgrade, and then probably will come the
> defragger.
>
> Meanwhile, I've Improved the iBook's performance at least somewhat  
> with
> Disk Utility and by manually clearing out a lot of old documents and
> the last of the System 9 apps. Do you, or does anyone, by the way,  
> know
> if there's any reason not to scrap the entire OS 9 System Folder?
> anything in there that OS X actually requires, if it's not going to be
> required to run anything in Classic mode?
>
> Doug Bale
> dougbale@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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> Joseph Nolan <josephnolan1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, this topic has been really interesting to me. Although I find
>> the info really helpful, I am basically a visual learner who would
>> benefit from having someone doing defragging in front of me and
>> explaining what it actually does. Perhaps, this would be a topic for
>> the next meeting? I would be glad to contribute one of my laptops for
>> the demonstration.
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