
You also have the option of defragmenting specific files or folders and nothing more.

Defragmentation is one of the easiest ways to regain some of your system's lost performance. Should things start to get a little warm, activity will be paused until it has cooled down. It can defrag the data or just the free space of an internal or external drive. As defragmentation is a disk intensive activity, iDefrag constantly monitors the temperature of your disk. makes no claim that defragging is something to be ignored. Piriform's Defraggler tool is easily one of the best free defrag software programs out there. iDefrag is a small utility with the single purpose of running drive defragmentation and optimization. The comment of ‘Convential wisdom is that Mac drives don’t need defragging’ at the Photoshop LR forum linked above makes me wonder how the idea of avoiding defragmentation tools could ever be considered conventional or wise…and who is responsible for spreading such misinformation that Lundberg and others apparently fall for blindly. Review: Drive defragmentation and optimization with iDefrag. My drive was very fragmented … improved speed very significant

į) decided to buy Idefrag and try to see if fragmentation could be an issue. Your primary scratch disk should be your fastest hard disk make sure it has plenty of defragmented space available… Drives with scratch disks should be defragmented regularly. If you are getting the "scratch disk is full" error message and your scratch disk drive does show a good amount of free space, you may need to run a disk defragmentation utility. This is because Photoshop requires contiguous, unfragmented free space on the scratch disk drive. It is also possible to get the "scratch disk is full" error, even if the scratch disk drive has free space.
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So how does Lundberg02 explain why a full scratch disk warning appears when the drive has plenty of space? This value has been available in Photoshop for many years. You can learn more about this in the Help section.
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How to Use iDefrag: Download the App, then drag it into Applications. The iDefrag is the most popular advanced app.
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I downloaded the app above, but when the dl finished I got a iDefragDemo.zip file. This tool is compatible with Mac OS X10.10 or later, that means it supports the newest HFS+. Lundberg, to answer your question, this means Michael is looking at either the info panel or the values that appear in the bottom left of every Photoshop document window. Hi, Im new, so I hope Im posting in the right place. "The file I am currently working on in photoshop displays under scratch Arguing what the computer and software makers recommend makes you appear ridiculous. I’m just quoting what Apple and Adobe recommend.

The problem you fail to realize is that you are not really debating me. "Lundberg02", what is ridiculous is someone that feels some bizarre need to follow me to various threads simply to debate.
