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- verb Present participle of
defrag .
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Examples
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Generally defragging is not necessary on OS X and some people even frown upon it.
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Advanced options available in Disk Defrag include a built-in scheduler for unattended optimization, as well as a setting for real-time defragging, which is performed in the background during computer idle times.
columbiatribune.com stories < 2010
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This whole ridiculousness known as The need for 'defragging' is one of the main reasons I moved over to Mac OS a few yeas ago.
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"Defragmenting or" defragging "a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles ... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."
Slashdot: IT CmdrTaco 2010
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"Defragmenting or" defragging "a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles ... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."
Slashdot: IT CmdrTaco 2010
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"Defragmenting or" defragging "a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles ... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."
Slashdot: IT CmdrTaco 2010
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Defragmenting or "defragging" the hard drive is like running a virtual broom over it, sweeping the files together again.
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You might care to see what I, and then Mike Bombich, wrote about "defragging" in
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I see people debate the usefulness of "defragging" quite a bit, but I'm a proponent of it when done to optimize file arrangement rather than just straight defragmenting of files.
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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The best & fastest way of defragging: clone your system disk to another drive using diskutility/restore or 'Carbon Copy Cloner'.
Clean Up And Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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