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Subject: Disk Optimization troubles/questions
From: Dave Hollinsworth, hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 08:10:19 GMT
In article <1992Nov3.081019.4756@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Dave
Hollinsworth, hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu writes:
>(Before I go into my story:  I know that some people will say that disk
>optimization is not worth it.  Well, I want to try it anyway....)
>
>Recently, a friend let me use his copy of Symantec Utilities for
Macintosh.
>I decided to run SUMTuneUp on my hard drive (after backing it up, of
course).
>I selected the options for "Defrag" & "Optimize", and let it go to work.
>However, the defrag step refused to touch two files, namely the Desktop
DB
>and DF files, saying that they were open.  Similarly, the optimize
refused
>to run, citing the presence of open files on the hard disk.  (Oh yeah: 
Mac
>SE, System 7.0.1.T)
 
<<All sorts of things tried to get the program to "work."  This section
deleted>>

>So, does anyone have any idea how I can force SUMTuneUp to
defrag/optimize
>without flagging the DB/DF files as problems?  Or, does another program
>(commercial or otherwise) exist that will let me do what I want to do
with
>a minimum of trouble?

Sum TuneUp isn't System 7 aware.  I would get Disk Express II from AlSoft.

I have it and use it without any problems.

Jon