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From: lriggins@afit-ab.arpa (L. Maurice Riggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Express info wanted!
Message-ID: <229@afit-ab.arpa>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 17:33:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 17:33:58 1987
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Reply-To: lriggins@afit-ab.arpa (L. Maurice Riggins)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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In article <3640@ig.ig.com> relph@presto.UUCP (John M. Relph) writes:
>Another way to optimize your disk is to back up all of your files onto
>floppies, re-initialize the hard disk, and then copy your files back
>onto the disk.  This sounds like it takes a long time.  It does.  And
>you have to stand there while you do it.  However, there are backup
>programs that will simplify much of the process for you.  I use
>Supermac's DiskFit backup program.  DiskFit copies files to floppies
>using standard format, so you can Finder copy files direct from the
>backups.  However, it keeps information about the desktop along with
>the files on each diskette so that your hard disk is rebuilt with the
>same folder information.  In order to reduce the overhead caused by
>the desktop file, I suppose you could manually rebuild the desktop
...
(remainder deleted)

I tried all that as a cheap alternative to Disk Express...and found my
disk running grossly slower!  The problem seems to be the many folders I
have which begin with a letter before the letter S, as in System Folder.
It was backed up toward the end and as a result restored quite a ways
out from track 0.  Also there was a total mixing of application and
document files which were ordered by name -- alphabetically.  When I had
put the disk together initially, it was system first, then applications,
followed by data files, perhaps not totally optimum, but close.

Disk Express does this ordering for you...as well as rebuilding the
desktop, etc, etc.

Looking at the hours I spent, and the end result; not mail-ordering DE
for $27-30 was penny-wise and pound-foolish.



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Maurice                lriggins@afit-ab.ARPA