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- #IDEFRAG VS ONYX HOW TO#
- #IDEFRAG VS ONYX INSTALL#
- #IDEFRAG VS ONYX SOFTWARE#
- #IDEFRAG VS ONYX DOWNLOAD#
- #IDEFRAG VS ONYX FREE#
Cloning only reduced file fragmentation to 99.985% unfragmented files but converted almost all of that 4GB to pretty much contiguous space.
#IDEFRAG VS ONYX FREE#
Despite having 99.945% of the files unfragmented pre-clone I still had 4+ GB of pretty fragmented free space. The Speed Tools defragmenting tool defragmented files but I think any decrease in the <1MB free pieces was only a side effect. I'm still puzzled as to why some of my <10MB mp3 files were not copied onto contiguous space during cloning seeing as there's a very large contiguous chunk, but the situation has clearly improved as regards to fragmented freespace. However, these files are largely only in 2 fragments each vs. The report shows 62 still fragmented files vs. There is clearly a lot more contiguous space. Number of freespace pieces < 1 MB: 62 = 0 GB Number of freespace pieces >= 100 MB = 10 MB = 1 MB < 10 MB: 3 = 0 GB Number of freespace pieces >=500 MB: 0 = 0 GB Number of freespace pieces >= 1GB: 1 = 1.43 GB Number of freespace pieces >= 100 MB = 10 MB = 1 MB = 5GB: 1 = 19.75 GB Number of freespace pieces >= 100 MB = 10 MB = 1 MB = 5GB: 0 SVF also reported about 200 files still fragmented: This is ShowVolumeFragmentation (SVF) utility's report about half way through the delete large files and defragment again process, maybe when I had about 16 GB free. I kept on deleting large files and repeatedly running Defragmenter but it still wouldn't defragment all (according to Speed Disk's report). I ran Speed Tools Defragmenter on it repeatedly until it no longer reported any files being defragmented, but still reported several hundred fragmented files. I examined my own hard drive, 115 GB (after formatting). I got incentive to do some investigating. In other words, the effect may be temporary so don't suddenly think, "Oh, look, 1 GB freed up, let's fill that up fast." If you discover it suddenly frees a huge amount of space then maybe you have other issues with your computer that are causing some runaway process to create huge log files. This will clear up space that will probably be taken up again soon since some of this is used on a regular basis by the computer. One note about running maintenance tasks using a utility tool. Files are automatically defragmented when copying provided the target drive has sufficient free contiguous space. The easiest and cheapest way to defragment is to clone (Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, others) your drive to another drive, wipe the original drive, then clone back.
#IDEFRAG VS ONYX HOW TO#
You also need to know how to read a utility like this and don't let it scare you into thinking you absolutely have to defragment. The other thing is that pretty much any drive will show some fragmentation, even one just defragmented. There's an application called that just reports fragmentation. Of course before deleting files or running a disk maintenance program, you should have a hard drive backup. This may help with disk space and should help performance. Run the tasks on the cleaning and maintenance tabs.
#IDEFRAG VS ONYX SOFTWARE#
Available fromĪlso run the disk maintenance software OnyX, available from You can pick up up to 1GB of space depending on your options. choose languages to keep or delete carefully. If your wife only uses a few languages, you can use the program monolingual to remove unused languages, and there may be alot, that come standard with OS X. This program will allow you to sort all the files on your system by size.
#IDEFRAG VS ONYX DOWNLOAD#
If you want to see the files that are taking up space, download this: To delete an application, drag the application icon to the garbage can and empty the garbage. A highly out-of-order OS directory can also cause slow waveform previews - use DiskWarrior to clean up your directoryĪ good housecleaning of your OS and FCP should help speed up the generation of these preview files, along with the other tips.Due to the way OS X works, with minor exception, defragging isn't required. Defrag the drive your waveform cache lives on (iDefrag from Coriolis Systems) Download and run the cleaning routines in Digital Rebellions FCP Tookit, which will clean up FCP cache files for you
#IDEFRAG VS ONYX INSTALL#
Install and run Onyx which will clear the OS cache used to help FCP create its internal cache files Move your Waveform cache location to your fastest internal HDD
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There's only a few things you can do to speed up the waveform preview creation: If that drive is slow, near-full or is highly fragmented then it will take the system a long time to generate those previews. If you notice in your System Preferences in FCP you have a location where Audio Waveform cache is stored. Waveforms are built by cache files inside the FCP core rendering engine.