#UNABLE TO CREATE BOOT DISK IN IDEFRAG FULL VERSION#
#UNABLE TO CREATE BOOT DISK IN IDEFRAG UPGRADE#

The important thing is not how fragmented a file is-it is how big the fragments are. If you really think you have fragmentation problems, ask this tool first before shelling out some money for a product. There is an open source tool 'hfsdebug' which gives you unbiased results. And indeed, their diagnosis tool shows a massive improvement. It's just, there are some bad guys out there who show you some funny diagnosis results which show in how bad shape your computer is, and for just 30 bucks, they'll make everything better. Isn't that suspicious? Is the speedup you describe really massive? Did you measure it somehow or is it only perceived? As you describe, the only reason you bought it was, that the free version indicated you need it. So, naturally, I'm very skeptic of tools who claim to do something which should not be necessary and cost money. when a file is often enough a culprit for performance impact, it relocates it. Has anyone else here had to defrag their Mac?Д®dit in case anyone was wondering, I used iDefrag.ДЄlthough I'm not really deep into HFS+, I'm pretty sure HFS+ does online optimization including relocating files which fulfill some criteria which suggest that performance is wasted.ДЄs far as I know, HFS+ can get into a state which has non-optimal performance but should pull itself out of it after some time. Now it looks like this, and Aperture is running much faster.

#UNABLE TO CREATE BOOT DISK IN IDEFRAG FULL VERSION#

So i went ahead and forked over the $30 for the full version and did a defrag off the bootable CD it makes for you. Also, the top 6 most fragmented files on my drive were all Aperture database files (which were several orders of magnitude more fragmented than the next in line). I downloaded the demo of iDefrag and saw this. It involved adding/modifying metadata on upwards of 80 gigs of images.

#UNABLE TO CREATE BOOT DISK IN IDEFRAG UPGRADE#

I looked around online and found that doing something like an Aperture upgrade can seriously fragment your filesystem. still had 500 some megs of free ram, and it was using up maybe 50% of one of my cores.

It wasn't really using up a lot of resources though. Tons of pinwheels often when just trying to select the next picture in my library. Here's what happened to me.ДЄfter upgrading to Aperture 3, I noticed that it was running dog slow. So, I know Macs are supposed to 'just work' and their filesystems are made in such a way to prevent fragmentation, but it can happen.

Unable to create boot disk in idefrag