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bgrotto
Joined: Aug 30, 2003
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From: Boston, MA
 |  Posted: 2004-01-18 12:45
I got a copy of DiskWarrior the other day and decided I'd see what would happen if I ran it on my iPod.
For those of you unfamiliar with the program, it rebuilds hard drives (like defragging) by putting files in a more uniform order, thus improving the time it takes for your computer to access files. The really cool thing is you can have the app graph out your drives to see just how out of order they are. It gives you a visual representation and also tells you the percentage of out-of-order files.
So anyway, when I graphed my iPod''s wee drive, it was something like 35% out of whack. After fixing a few botched files, rebuilding its drive (nothing is erased, by the way. all data remains intact) and optimizing it, I found it loads songs startlingly faster, and even moves from menu to menu more quickly. Cool! My brother did the same thing with his iPod and it worked really well for him, too.
So if you have DiskWarrior, or any other drive-repairing app, I suggest you give it a shot.
FYI, though- DiskWarrior currently only runs in Jaguar; I had to install Jaguar on a partition on one of my computer's hard drives then install DiskWarrior. But it was no big deal because I was rebuilding all my drives anyway (I needed a clean install for my new Pro Tools rig! Yay!).
So give it a shot. You'd be surprised how big a difference it can make.
xoxo benny
[ This message was edited by: bgrotto on 2004-01-18 12:46 ]
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quentin0013
Joined: Jan 31, 2004
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is it work with windows?
and if it is, is there any trouble for the ipod?
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MX
Joined: Nov 21, 2003
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| Posted: 2004-02-02 22:36
Damn, he's right. All the menus load quicker and the songs load faster as well.
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ashishv
Joined: Jan 30, 2004
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Any IDea, what apps to be used for Windows Users?
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bgrotto
Joined: Aug 30, 2003
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From: Boston, MA
| Posted: 2004-02-04 08:54
As I recall, my pops' Windows XP setup has a de-fragging program that was included with XP; I imagine you could probably use that (assuming you too use XP). Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure; you'll probably have to do some research on the intra-web.
Good luck.
xoxo benny
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smarty
Joined: Jan 28, 2004
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From: West Yorkshire, England
| Posted: 2004-02-04 13:48
Yes, XP comes with a defragging tool and it recognises a Windows formatted iPod.
I ran it a couple of time on my iPod and it seemed to reduced the fragmentation a little, but it made no discernable difference to the menu or song loading times.
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Misterobotto
Joined: Feb 08, 2004
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| Posted: 2004-02-08 21:30
For some reason (although everything is working) im unable to find my ipod as a removable drive in my "my computer" folder therefore i can't defrag it. Any tips.
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dragonman586
Joined: Jan 30, 2004
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| Posted: 2004-02-20 10:27
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For some reason (although everything is working) im unable to find my ipod as a removable drive in my "my computer" folder therefore i can't defrag it. Any tips.
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well go into itunes click the ipod in the source list and then click the ipod symbol in the lower right side of itunes and tell it u'll transfer everything manually...it should do it
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robertm
Joined: Mar 15, 2004
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On 2004-02-08 21:30, Misterobotto wrote:
For some reason (although everything is working) im unable to find my ipod as a removable drive in my "my computer" folder therefore i can't defrag it. Any tips.
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At least for a 3rd generation iPod, when it's showing as a "source" in iTunes, there should be a little button showing an iPod icon on the bottom edge of the iTunes window. Clicking the button enables the iPod as a firewire drive. This is in the manual. (And no offence to those at Apple but semi secret pseudo cryptic is stupid interface design).
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Aliencam
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
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From: ARIZONA USA!!!
 | Posted: 2004-03-19 15:11
i tried defraging my ipod with the winXP defrag program but all it did was crash it.. ihad to reset it and retransfer all the songs... i might've done something wrong, ill try again and report back here...
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Aliencam
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
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From: ARIZONA USA!!!
| Posted: 2004-03-19 15:46
woah! i tried again and figured out that my problem whas i ren scandisk(error checking) first, DO NOT DO THIS!
what you want to do to defragment it is:
just set it to run as disk, then right click on it, go to the tools and click "defragmentation" and then defrag it.
They were right, it is soooo much faster its not even funny!!! everythign goes faster, the menus, the songs load faster, its awesome!!!
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covbbabe
Joined: May 13, 2004
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Never did see the icon in iTunes (see above postings) but was able to access the ipod with the XP operating system via Windows Exporer | then right click on the drive | select Properties | Tools | Defragment Now.
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jinky32
Joined: Jan 22, 2004
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From: england
| Posted: 2004-05-16 17:50
has anyone else tried this on XP? i'm very tempted to do it but don't want to screw up my pod (obviously)
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bird603568
Joined: May 03, 2004
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ya i defrag every week it i keep if fast i havent had any problems
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aznstylez9
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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From: USA East Coast
 | Posted: 2004-05-20 17:51
i tried defragging my ipod and with diskkeeper 8.0 and it just crashed.
..not to mention that was the second time i tried that.
The first time it crashed. But things only got worse from there. A bunch of mp3s were corrupt and the additional files i store on my ipod went corrupt. I had to wipe out my entire ipod and reupload everything.
Put it this way: if you're gonna defrag your ipod, back up the entire drive just in case.
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Btgx00
Joined: Jun 11, 2004
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 | Posted: 2004-06-12 11:37
I have winxp and I just right-clicked my ipod in mycomputer then properties>tools>error-checking and then>defrag now. It works and my ipod runs better.
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Aliencam
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
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From: ARIZONA USA!!!
| Posted: 2004-06-18 01:37
thats what i do btgx00, i try to do it after adding every 25 songs... the only problem with it is ti takes forever, and the ipod gets quite hot while doing that...
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fifty
Joined: Feb 04, 2004
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| Posted: 2004-07-21 18:14
Does anyone know of any free defragging programs on the net for a Mac?
If I'm not mistaken, there are none pre-packaged with OSX (10.2. .
-by "free" I mean freeware/shareware!
thanks
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trent1of6
Joined: Jul 28, 2004
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From: Texas
| Posted: 2004-07-28 23:18
just wanted to say thanks benny grotto
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Anbu
Joined: Aug 03, 2004
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how long does it take to defragment a 20gig?? i try the xp defrag thing and it says its finished defragmenting but it took like 5 seconds...help?
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