I'm very satisfied with iDefrag: it feels solid and reliable. But there's a couple of enhancements that would really make it a perfect tool.
1) Some automation would be nice. You have to stay there until the dialog pops up, asking you for the password. Then it asks again for the password at a later point in the process. All in all it's a bit too manual: I wish I could start a complete optimize and then leave the Mac alone for a few hours. Also, I wish I could fire up optimizing of several volumes at once (although nobody offers such a feature on OS X).
2) I wish there was a graph showing the fragmentation state for each volume, and I wish I could keep that graph open while I go and check other volumes.
3) You can only deal with one volume at a time, and then, for each volume, you must enter the password, then wait for iDefrag to read the contents. If you decide to leave it there and go to another volume, same procedure. Now if you go back to the first volume, same procedure again (iDefrag forgets that it already read the contents 3 minutes ago). Can't you guys make it faster and easier for the casual user?
Otherwise I'd give iDefrag a fifth star.
iDefrag
Defragmentation & disk optimization.
Version: 1.7.2
Almost great...
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: welcome--2008 Saturday, July 30 2005 @ 06:34 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 6-12 months
Recommend Product: YES
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You can automate it and disable the password checking - welcome--2008
Can you please be more specific? How can I do this? Thanks.Tuesday, August 30 2005 @ 05:33 AM PDT
You can automate it and disable the password checking - Alastair_Houghton_882
iDefrag has AppleScript support so you can automate it.There are also a couple of ways to disable the password checking.
If the author of the post logs a support request we can help with these issues.
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Tuesday, August 02 2005 @ 01:53 AM PDT