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From: Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org>
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Subject: Re: How much HD space needed for memory swapping
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:26:07 -0800
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On 1/18/25 11:11 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

> 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).

And thank you to both of you.

Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco