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Technical short version
Authored by: paalb on Nov 30, '04 01:27:53PM

I have got input from some visitors to my web pages that wanted a more technical short version. I have added the following to my HOWTO:

So why do we do this?

Here is the scenario: One day you realize that your iPod has got a playing time thats only one or two hours. You believe that not so far ago this was no problem. You try to recharge the battery and it only charges for maybe one hour.

1. I believe there is something wrong in the OS, that makes charging of the battery go wrong. Thats why I use the updater to reset the OS.
Using the updater to reset is also the first step in defragmentation.
2. The defragmentation I believe is useful to do every time you decide to remove some music and replace that with some other music. Then you get minimal movement of disk heads
3. The third thing is not to stress your filesystem and OS by filling it up 100%, which I believe might be the reason for the corruption of the OS in the first place.
4. We use the Disk Utility to check that the filesystem is O.K.



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