[muglo] Re: permission to defrag?

On 29-Jul-07, at 8:32 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> I tend to agree permissions and defrag are different issues.
> Gerhard

Not as different as you may think & I think Doug's post elucidates  
somewhat. We used to Defrag when drives got slow because the ran out  
of space, but the drives were then in Megs, such as 32 Meg. When  
larger 80 Meg + came out they had enough space for programmes to  
write a new copy of the file & then destroying the old one. Memory  
cost was a primary cause of Mac programmes using so much less memory  
than IBM ones initially, even to this day so defragging was not an  
issue on Macs, although it became a cash cow for Norton as many users  
also worked on IBMs at work, so were used to doing it. HTH.
TeeC
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