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You are frequently saving particularly large files, greater than 1GB.

You are running out of storage space (we always advise keeping 10% of your storage free).

The only reason you might need to defrag your Mac is if the following applies: Guide to using Disk Utility here, and also various Luckily Macs have a number of tools in Disk Utility for troubleshooting and fixing various problems with your system, so it’s worth having a look there. No doubt Apple’s response to that would be that APFS will not benefit from defragging.Ĭhances are that if you are having a problem with your Mac it is unrelated to fragmented files. The companies that make tools for defragging Macs complain that Apple hasn’t issued sufficient information about how APFS works for them to be able to be able to offer tools to defrag the new filing system. Like its predecessor, APFS automatically defragments your drive on the fly, although it works a little differently as it creates snapshots of files so you can access different versions of the same files. APFS was initially only available on SSDs (which as we’ve already said, shouldn’t be defragged anyway), but it arrived on hard drives and Fusion drives in 2018 with Mojave. A year later, in 2003, Hot File Adaptive Clustering arrived, which identifies files that are frequently accessed but rarely updated and moves them to a special area of the drive, defragging them during the process.Īpple then introduced APFS (Apple File System) in High Sierra in 2017.

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Then in Mac OS X 10.2, which arrived in 2002, the system got even cleverer at avoiding fragmentation.

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Apart from this (iDefrag) efficient tool, there are other efficient utilities like Stellar Drive Defrag with good customer support and free demo version available. HFS+, which was introduced in 1998, could defrag files on the fly thanks to Hot File Clustering. Defragmenting Mac drive enhances the speed of sluggish Mac. Mac do not need to be defragmented because the file system (initially HFS+ and more recently APFS) prevents fragmentation and automatically defrags files if necessary – if the file has more than eight fragments, or is smaller than 20MB, it will be automatically defragged.

If you are running High Sierra or Mojave, and your file system has been changed to Apple’s newer APFS, you will not be able to use any third party tools to defrag your Mac as there are none that work.

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Your Mac operating system does not predate 2002 (if it does can we suggest you update your Mac!).If any of the following applies to you we would suggest that defraging is not the solution to your problem: You should now be able to launch iDefrag from your backup volume, and 'aim it' at the main drive, and iDefrag can then do its thing.As we’ll explain below, you probably don’t need to defrag your Mac. I recommend that you change the desktop background so that you know it's the backup rather than the main drive (BTW, you will have to do that every time you do an incremental backup).ĩ. The backup drive should appear EXACTLY as your internal did. The Mac will boot from the backup drive.Ĩ. Use the left/right arrow key to pick the backup drive, and when it's selected, hit the return key. As soon as you hear the startup sound, hold down the 'option' key and KEEP HOLDING IT DOWN.ħ. When the clone is complete, restart the computer. That 'clone' will be an exact copy of your internal drive, and it's bootable, right from the SATA dock.Ħ. Use CarbonCop圜loner to do a 'clone backup' of your main drive to the docked drive. Connect the USB/SATA dock to the Mac, put the bare drive in it, start it up, initialize it with Disk Utility, create one or more partitions as you desireĥ. 24x7 worldwide customer support is available to IDERA customers that hold a current maintenance contract.

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Download CarbonCop圜loner from their website:Ĥ. Our goal is to provide you with the assistance and information you need to achieve success with IDERAs products. Get a 'bare' hard drive from the vendor of your choice (I like Seagate drives from )ģ. (many items shown, a cheap, basic one is all you need)Ģ.

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'I really need to know how to create a second boot up disk - any help is greatly appreciated.'