DIY defragmentation or do-it-yourself defrag without third party software?

Ok, I admit it I am in the Irish mentality now - humour me...
Any files under about 20MB, are already automtically defragmented in the breath of the MAC as I have learned in the past. BUT, my photoshop files are always in excess of 400 mb some reach 620 mb. I am working on 500 mb files daily for 4 years. I have noticed a slow response time in many of these files over time, my computer is spring clean and memory and process time has always been forefront in my mind for years, that is without dust as well. I know ram is an issue, but I believe that many of these huge files are fragmented due to re-writes, updates and editng, deleting and renaming and well, you know what. That is the nature of photography, Especially when you need to re-edit for a different output.
So my reasoning is thus:
If I duplicate the whole directory somewhere else on my system, about 40 gb, onto the he hard drive naturally. Then delete the old folder, rename the new folder only (not The files), this should then copy those files, the whole directory un-fragmented onto some contiguous free space and Voila? The DIY Defrag?
Good Plan?, or is this really Irish?

If I duplicate the whole directory somewhere else on my system, about 40 gb, onto the he hard drive naturally. Then delete the old folder, rename the new folder only (not The files), this should then copy those files, the whole directory un-fragmented onto some contiguous free space and Voila? The DIY Defrag?
Not really, especially if it's the same drive/partition, but you'd likely have to move many GB at a time or it might just fragment it more.
japamac's suggestion is best.

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