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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SUM bugs
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Date: 8 Aug 88 23:41:34 GMT
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In article <11071@lll-winken.llnl.gov> cmoore@maddog.llnl.gov () writes:
>I just got SUM in the mail from Symantec.  In playing with it
>I found two (apparent) bugs.
>[...]
>
>2. HD Tuneup refuses to optimize some of my larger files (system for
>   instance) and gives a 'cannot optimize' error.  The manual says
>   that this indicates that there was not enough contiguous free
>   space to defragment the file.  This cannot be the case since
>   my hard drive currently has about 20Mb contiguous free space.

Had this same problem with the System file; however, when I ran HD Tuneup on
the same disk -- when I had *not* booted from that disk -- it optimized
without a complaint.

I have a suspicion, with no foundation in knowledge, that HD Tuneup will
either not optimize files that are currently open, or will not optimize the
System file on the boot disk.  Anyone know for sure?  I'd bet that this is a
"feature not a bug" situation.

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