ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Here's Apple's take:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
From what I gather reading that, unless you have a rather small hard drive AND keep your hard drive very close to full capacity AND work on rather large files at the same time AND don't use Panther AND don't have your hard drive formatted as HFS+ AND don't mind risking damage to files AND use very old programs that "append" data to files rather than "rewrite" the file AND still don't believe that Mac OS X Panther optimizes the right files for you, don't bother. It's simply too much work for an undetectable amount of gain.
I decided to post this since there have been a plethora of queries about how to defrag/whether I should/can I/will I see benefits from/what software I should use/etc. I hope this puts the debate to rest.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
From what I gather reading that, unless you have a rather small hard drive AND keep your hard drive very close to full capacity AND work on rather large files at the same time AND don't use Panther AND don't have your hard drive formatted as HFS+ AND don't mind risking damage to files AND use very old programs that "append" data to files rather than "rewrite" the file AND still don't believe that Mac OS X Panther optimizes the right files for you, don't bother. It's simply too much work for an undetectable amount of gain.
I decided to post this since there have been a plethora of queries about how to defrag/whether I should/can I/will I see benefits from/what software I should use/etc. I hope this puts the debate to rest.