On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Dave Kelly via Groups.Io wrote: ![]() I wasn't mentioned in this thread, but in the event that your hard drive is a solid state hard drive (SSD), NEVER use a defragmenter on it. Note that you can now download and use iDefrag for free:Įven if you don't use iDefrag to defragment your hard drive, you can use it to see how fragmented your hard drive is and how big your biggest chunk of contiguous free space is. You may either need to delete a ton of files, or you will need to defragment your hard drive. I will start to delete some files nowJust to be clear, that may not be enough if your hard drive is very fragmented. On Jan 18, 2020, at 5:28 AM, Sew Walker wrote: It finds all the other connectedĭrives, but I want to check out my hard drive on my iMac. I downloaded the latest version of iDefrag but it doesn’t “find” my As the problem gets worse, eventually you will experience data loss.Ĭo-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) If you do your Mac will start acting flakier and flakier. If your hard drive has a lot of fragmentation, you may need to defragment it for it to go back to normal.ĭon't ignore this problem. Your Mac prefers *contiguous* free space on your hard drive to work with. ![]() Not only that, but even if you clear off a bunch of space, that may not remedy the situation. Macs require about 20% free hard drive space for caches, scratch space, databases, virtual memory, etc. The problem was that the Mac's hard drive was approaching 80% full, or more, and that for all intents and purposes that Mac's hard drive was full. I keep getting this and have closed all applications any idea what I should doI've seen this many times, and every time that I've seen it the problem had nothing to do with RAM. On Jan 17, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Sew Walker wrote:
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