Free Disk Defragmenter

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Free Disk Defragmenter

Does anyone know any completely free (not trial) disk defragmenter for Mac OS 10.4? I've looked at VersionTracker and other sites and I only see commercial programs that do this. There are free ones but they are old programs from 2005. Thanks.

-Mike

12" iBook G4 1 GHz, 30GB HD, 768 MB RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.7), PC desktop w/ Windows XP (my main computer), 30 GB Video iPod (2005 version)

Posted on Jun 19, 2008 7:06 PM

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a brody

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Jun 19, 2008 7:27 PM in response to Mike_M.

Disk Utility.

A smart defragmenter will backup their data anyway before doing it.
When you reformat a hard drive to have a separate partition for scratch data, it can have that second partition erased at anytime, thus always giving you defragmented space to work with for large files.
Mac OS X on the other hand does its own defragmentation for small files. See this discussion:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/9900929295/p /1

Apple also has an article on its defragmentation, but it currently is down at:

http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25668

I'll see what I can do to get this article back up.

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