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Carlo Medina · 01-22-2008, 01:45 PM

I know HFS+ and Mac OSX does a pseudo-defrag on the fly. I don't think I have enough HD space free to use the Coriolis solution.

This is why I was interested to see if anyone using Migration Assistant had any success stories without having to reinstall/reauthorize programs. Because that would allow me to install a new version of Leopard, then migrate the old programs in, and the theory being as OSX migrated the programs over, there would be defragging on the fly. But I have heard rumblings of having to reinstall programs which I'd like to avoid.

01-22-2008, 01:45 PM	#3 of 19
Carlo Medina Member Location: Here Join Date: Nov 1997 Local Time: 02:54 AM Local Date: 10-12-2008 Posts: 10,604	Re: Upgrading Macbook Pro HD, cloning advice sought I know HFS+ and Mac OSX does a pseudo-defrag on the fly. I don't think I have enough HD space free to use the Coriolis solution. This is why I was interested to see if anyone using Migration Assistant had any success stories without having to reinstall/reauthorize programs. Because that would allow me to install a new version of Leopard, then migrate the old programs in, and the theory being as OSX migrated the programs over, there would be defragging on the fly. But I have heard rumblings of having to reinstall programs which I'd like to avoid.