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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0--A New Question
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Date: 9 Jun 89 16:22:08 GMT
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In article <1928@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
>I've seen lots of questions and comments about the new system 7.0, but have
>not seen if the new system corrects the obvious problem with the slow
>desktop file updating when copying files to a disk, particularly large
>disks. I hope they've done something to speed things up. Comments?

I think the big problem is that with large HDs, the desktop file is one of
the first ones to get fragmented.  Whenever I run diskexpress on my 80MHD,
desktop file updating speeds up considerably.  I hope it provides some way
to attempt to write a defragmented file (another toolbox call).  This would
be best, considering it would be useful of VM, too.

>Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst

-Ivan