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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Defragmenter?
Keywords: defragmentor
Message-ID: <36943@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 89 07:08:40 GMT
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danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Dieter) writes:

>HD Tuneup is NOT a disk defragmentor; it is a FILE defragmentor. When you
>are done, your free space is still defragmented, and likely even more so
>than when you started. DiskExpress completely defragments the files and
>the free space (I'm not sure what it does in Quick Optimize; why would
>anyone bother?).

Quick Optimized is a file degragmentor, just like the first version of HD
Tuneup was.

What Dieter says was true for SUM Version 1. With SUM II, however, HD Tuneup
was enhanced for both file and disk optimization. Functionally it's now the
same as DiskExpress, and I much prefer the user interface.

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

When it comes to matters ourside your specialties, you are consistently and
brilliantly stupid [....] with respect to matters you haven't studied and
have had no experience basing your opinions on casual gossip [....] and
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