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From: syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: question about disk compaction
Keywords: disk compaction
Message-ID: <2117@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 04:01:48 GMT
References: <32435@linus.UUCP> <2303@spray.CalComp.COM>
Reply-To: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam)
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In article <2303@spray.CalComp.COM> anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) writes:

[...lots of good comments on Alsoft's optimizer program Disk Express...]

*BTW: The whole process requires about 2 hours on a 20MB disk. A full
*backup is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED before beginning, since any interruption of
*the process will leave your disk unreadable.

[...]

*Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own. But they seem to be
*shared by most people.

Ditto completely on all counts; just wanted to confirm in case you needed
a second opinion.  I know that my applications load faster.  Improvement
in startup time is hard for me to say, since I also just got Font/DA
Juggler (love it!), which is a 100K+ INIT.
						James

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