Tips to overcome fragmentation and slow Mac issues

We know that slow Mac is caused by many reasons and among all of them, fragmentation of Mac files is one. So, in this article we deal with the effects of fragmentation on our system and tips to resolve all such issues.

Is your application taking more time to open which usually had taken seconds. Sometimes its really irritating when you have a lot of work and your mouse acting weired or very slow? So, beware of these activities. Because all these are signs of sluggish Mac and you need to take an appropriate action before it goes unbearable.

Such cases eventually leads to data loss and requires Mac File Recovery to be handled, if the backup is not in place.


Effects of fragmentation on your Mac:

• It starts freezing during general file operations and taking long time to respond. Sometimes in such situations, during system operations system may crash and so the data structure of your system get damaged. And requires Mac file recovery, if backup is not taken place.
  
• Sometimes due to heavy fragmentation there are chances of partition table and file system corruption. In such conditions, you face critical data loss situations.
  
• BootCamp partition creation requires free contiguous space on hard drive which is not available due to fragmented data. 
   
  

Free tips to remove the problem of fragmentation as shown below:

Updation and re installation of softwares:
The software and drivers present in your Mac hard drive should be updated to the latest one, to improve the performance of your syatem. Windows and Mac's have features of giving automatic alerts to let you know when your machine needs an update. So, you just require to update manually.

Defragging Mac hard drive:

As HFS+only avoid fragmentation upto 20mb. So, you need to go for some third party tool like Stellar drive defrag, idefrag etc. Mac has HFS+ file system which only capable to avoid condition of fragmentation in small files of 20mb only. Defragmentation performs free space optimization and enables to utilize maximum free space available in drive.

 

Increasing RAM is another great solution:

Increase RAM is one of great solution to enhance speed of system. As it quite expensive so before installing more RAM one must check whether it required or not. So, you need to know how to determine need of RAM in system. 

 

Third party Application for defragmenting Mac:

You can optimize your Mac performance by defragging Mac files using third party application. The one I know is Stellar drive defrag which is capable enough to perform free space optimization. It enables you to make maximum utilization of free space available in drive.This software also gives you status of your hard drive.