Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject	Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping
Date	2025-01-18 19:11 +0000
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On 2025-01-17, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
> On 1/17/25 1:33 PM, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-01-17 21:13:51 +0000, Dudley Brooks said:
>>> On 1/16/25 4:49 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-16, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Should I defrag afterwards?  Or does the OS (10.13.6 High Sierra)
>>>>> make it somehow unnecessarry
>>>>
>>>> That's not something you need to do with flash storage (SSDs).
>>>
>>> Ah!  Excellent!  Thanks!
>> 
>> The original post says "HD", as in hard drive, not SSD flash storage.
>> As usual Jolly Roger didn't bother actually reading the question.
>> 
>> Having noted that, defragging isn't really neccessary on MacOS hard
>> drives either.
>
> My apologies -- it actually is an SSD.  I just have been using
> computers for so long that I still say "HD" generically -- anything
> that's not a floppy or a tape!

Yes, I understood this. Apparently Your Name is the one who didn't
bother reading your original post, because if he had he would have read
past "HD" to see the model Mac you are referencing, which doesn't even
have an option for hard drives as it's an SSD-only model - something I
figured out within a few seconds of reading your original post. 😉

At any rate, defragging isn't something you need to do with modern Macs
(even those with hard drives).

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How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-15 23:10 -0800
  Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-01-16 19:16 +0000
    Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-16 13:44 -0800
      Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-01-17 00:49 +0000
        Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-17 13:13 -0800
          Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-01-18 10:33 +1300
            Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-17 13:45 -0800
              Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-01-18 13:33 +1300
                Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-19 12:24 -0800
                Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-01-19 21:00 +0000
                Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-21 17:10 -0800
              Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-01-18 19:11 +0000
                Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-19 12:26 -0800
  Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Doc O'Leary ,   <droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystupid.com> - 2025-01-17 15:29 +0000
    Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2025-01-17 13:55 -0800

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