Drive Genius 3 LE - how to defrag?

Hey all,
I recently bought Drive Genius 3 LE from the App Store.
Using a MBP 15". It won't let me defrag the HD. There's a big red exclamation point that says "Can not defrag this drive". I was thinking of booting the computer from my USB HDD which has Mac OSX on it, then defragging my internal HDD with Drive Genius, but I don't know how to make OS X boot with the USB HDD?
Anyone have any ideas for me?
Thanks, in advance!

Hold down the option key at Boot up and it should show you all valid Bootable Volumes, or use System Preferences/Startup Disc to set the external.

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I don't understand how your DVD has anything to do
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http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/smart-technology.ht
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis
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OK, simply, how can I get t he program to run on my computer? Thanks.
Apologies, I am an artist, not a computer expert.
Again, thanks,
Roger

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Hi all. My computer was/is running very slow while booting and shutting down. The booting up process is only completed when I open one of the items in the dock. I decided to run Drive Genius. I ran the Defrag and got this message:
"Verify Failed. invalid catalog btree depth info (4.1)"
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Trying to defrag my macbook pro(2010)with drive genius startup disc and the disc is stuck in my computer. How do I get it out??

Trying to defrag my macbook pro(2010)with drive genius startup disc and the disc is stuck in my computer. How do I get it out??

Try these options:
Credit Kappy.
Look at these discussions:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6369213#6369213
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4032
Ciao.
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Can't turn off Verbose Mode after running disk defrag in minimal environment using Drive Genius 3

New to posting on here. I'm using a
Mid-2009 15in MacBook Pro
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB memory
After running Disk Defrag in a minimal environment using Drive Genius 3 my MacBook Pro only starts up in Verbose Mode.
I've done my searching on how to turn verbose mode on and off on the web and it gets me nowhere.
Using
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sudo nvram boot-args=
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I'm having the same issue but the solution suggested by prosoft doesn't work because that file des not exist.
Prosoft was able to help me.
First, FileVault is not reccomended and they are adding a FAQ to address that. Next, they said to trash this file:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
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If anyone has any other suggestions then I would be grateful.
Many Thanks.

Drive Genius defragment issue.... need help ...

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How do you fix imac disk defragmentation? I used Drive Genius 3 and the same things keep coming back as fragmented.

How do you repair disk defragmentation on an imac? I tried with Drive Genius 3 and after completion the same defrag keeps showing up.

Disk fragmentation and particularly whether it can be fixed, is very controversial. The following thread is worth reading:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3327627?start=0&tstart=0
I think it's true that disks can become fragmented, and this can affect performance. However it is also said that the OS X file system attempts to address this issue in the background all the time, apparently for certain sizes of files in particular.
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Ivan

Just got Prosoft drive genius 3 software, and it's telling me that the external hard drive that i am using for my time machine back up drive needs to be defragmented. is it wise to do this or should i not??

just got Prosoft drive genius 3 software, and it's telling me that the external hard drive that i am using for my time machine back up drive needs to be defragmented. is it wise to do this or should i not??

Let's hope a couple things: that you have bootable clones of your drives also; that the backup drive for TimeMachine has over 3x capacity of the data you plan and are storing. I would also switch TM backup drives so you have a 2nd.
Fragmented free space affecting performance happens when the drive is too full which may mean there isn't enough free space for a full backup set.
1.5TB for backing up 500GB, while WD Green 3TB is $140 and WD Black 1.5TB is, about the same price.
I'd be worried about the integrity and directory, and whether you can afford to lose that drive. Defragging is also a very slow operation. the ideal: to just clone a drive, or start over with another drive and wait. cloning TM volumes has not been done or has it? SuperDuper hoped to but I don't think they or Bombich's CCC made it there.
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Best would be to ask in the TimeMachine section Snow Leopard
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard?view= discussions#/?tagSet=1009
where there are some good FAQ and tutorials, and people that know the ins-and-outs and shortcomings.

How to completely uninstall Drive Genius, OS-X 10.6.8

Mac Pro running OS-X 10.6.8.
In February 2012 I purchased Drive Genius 3.1.1 from Other World Computing. Tried it. Not much use to me, so I forgot about it.
In September 2014 I "upgraded" to Drive Genius v.3.2.5 but it would not run on my machine, so I forgot about it.
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I inquired on the net why this was happening and serendipitously found complaints about Drive Genius being very difficult to un-install.
I looked at the Console logs and saw this pattern, repeated every 10 seconds:
Jan 2 10:18:09 MacPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[124] (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[898]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius/DGAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/DGAgent", ...): No such file or directory
Jan 2 10:18:09 MacPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[124] (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[898]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jan 2 10:18:09 MacPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[124] (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Jan 2 10:18:19 MacPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[124] (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[917]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius/DGAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/DGAgent", ...): No such file or directory
Jan 2 10:18:19 MacPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[124] (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[917]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jan 2 10:18:19 MacPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[124] (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
etc. etc. apparently willing to go on forever.
I tried removing every trace of Drive Genius including in:
/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius (folder)
/Applications/Drive Genius 3.app (icon)
/Users/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius (folder)
/Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius2.plist (file)
/Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DGAgent.plist (file)
~/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum
~/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum
I even downloaded and installed the OSX 10.6.8 Combo Updater.
But, the every-ten-seconds" events are still happening.
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After a lot more work, the "repeated-every-10-seconds" messages seem to be gone now.
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     /Applications/Drive Genius 3.app
     /Users/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius
     /Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius2.plist
     /Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DGAgent.plist
I found this file and tried to remove it:
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Dragging the file to the trash did not work. Trying to remove the file via the Terminal "rm" command did not work. Even doing
"sudo rm com.prosofteng.DGMonitor.plist" would not work, resulting in the message:
"rm: com.prosofteng.DGMonitor.plist: Operation not permitted" and the file was still there.
I used COMMAND-I to change the file permission to READ AND WRITE and then used the VI editor in Terminal to "comment out" every line of the file by adding a "#" at the start of each line. Then I wrote out the file.
I still could not remove the file---I don't know why--- but I suppose it is now inert and can't do anything.
Upon restarting, the Console log no longer shows those "every-10-seconds" errors.
I assume my problem is solved?
I have yet to determine whether the Mac Pro will go to sleep as it used to do.
Now I need to remember to NEVER TRY INSTALLING DRIVE GENIUS or other dangerous applications again.
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Mac cant start: Operation not permitted 0xC001 - defrag - drive genius

Hi
My iMac from late 2006 was getting slow, so I thought I'd try Drive Genius 3 and defrag it. I ran Disk Utility to check it was fine and made Drive genius check it out too. All ok, but 66% fragmented. I boot up on Drive Genius and start the defrag - it runs and extimates 15 hrs to complete. Next morning I have a message on the screen that it has failed. I try to restart but I cant - I get the chimes and then a grey screen prompting me to restart. I have tried Drive Genius again - I can verify and repair the disk - no problem but still it wont boot. I cant select my c drive as startup disk - it has gone. I have tried Rebuild, but that failed. I tried booting from the Leopard disk but none of the utilities in there can help - ran Disk Utility again, no probs, but cant mount the drive.
What more can I try to get it up and running? I'm quite surprised at this failure having checked everything beforehand with no bad noises
regards
Michael

What drive is this? There is no "C" drive in OS X. Is it a Mac formatted drive or a Windows drive?
Enable Finder to Show Invisible Files and Folders
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following command line then press RETURN.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
To turn off the display of invisible files and folders enter or paste the following command line and press RETURN.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
Alternatively you can use one of the numerous third-party utilities such as TinkerTool or ShowHideInvisibleFiles - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
The above only makes invisible items visible but doesn't fix anything, although sometimes revealing invisibles, then turning off invisible files can fix a file that's lost visibility. Let me know. You can try something else if the above isn't helpful.

How to Defragment a FATx or NTFS (NON-MAC) partition/drive in Mac OSx

This is not another discussion about "How to defragment a native Mac partition/drive"
I've been roaming around lots of forums and everybody ask how to defragment a Mac Drive or Partition.. and the answers are always like "Why would you even want to defragment a your Mac.. OSx automatically does it for you.. Mac is so wonderful that ... bla bla bla..." ... I GOT IT, Ok..?
This time is different, I would like to know...
What tool should I use to defragment a NON-Mac Disk/Partition??
Say that you happend to have an external hard drive, which is in FATx or NTFS (Windows) format, then you attach it to your Mac and.. wel.. you want to defragment the disk from there because you just dont have windows Laptop/PC on hand.
Is this even possible from Mac, given that Mac OS is so wonderful that does not even need to defrag its file system?
I hope everybody understand my question before giving me the same answers once again.
Thank you very much!

mat060 wrote:
This is not another discussion about "How to defragment a native Mac partition/drive"
I've been roaming around lots of forums and everybody ask how to defragment a Mac Drive or Partition.. and the answers are always like "Why would you even want to defragment a your Mac.. OSx automatically does it for you.. Mac is so wonderful that ... bla bla bla..." ... I GOT IT, Ok..?
This time is different, I would like to know...
What tool should I use to defragment a NON-Mac Disk/Partition??
Say that you happend to have an external hard drive, which is in FATx or NTFS (Windows) format, then you attach it to your Mac and.. wel.. you want to defragment the disk from there because you just dont have windows Laptop/PC on hand.
Is this even possible from Mac, given that Mac OS is so wonderful that does not even need to defrag its file system?
I hope everybody understand my question before giving me the same answers once again.
Thank you very much!
Use DiskWarrior, respect your fellow users here, and perhaps stop with the multicolour, multi-font sized posts, which annoy the h#ll out of people that would normally help you.
DiskWarrior will do all you need to do, except perhaps for a Permissions repair once or twice a year if you believe it to be necessary.
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How to defragement a hard drive

Just upgraded my iMac 27" purchased in August 2012 to Yosemite. I move a lot of video files and my machine is running slow (nothing to do with the Yosemite upgrade). I used iDfrag in the past but it has not been updated for Yosemite. My questions is: What is the easiest way to defrag my hard drive?
Thank you
VPH

You don't defrag a drive running Apple OS X.
Defragmentation in OS X:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375 which states:
You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X. Here's why:
Hard disk capacity is generally much greater now than a few years ago. With more free space available, the file system doesn't need to fill up every "nook and cranny." Mac OS Extended formatting (HFS Plus) avoids reusing space from deleted files as much as possible, to avoid prematurely filling small areas of recently-freed space.
Mac OS X 10.2 and later includes delayed allocation for Mac OS X Extended-formatted volumes. This allows a number of small allocations to be combined into a single large allocation in one area of the disk.
Fragmentation was often caused by continually appending data to existing files, especially with resource forks. With faster hard drives and better caching, as well as the new application packaging format, many applications simply rewrite the entire file each time. Mac OS X 10.3 onwards can also automatically defragment such slow-growing files. This process is sometimes known as "Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering."
Aggressive read-ahead and write-behind caching means that minor fragmentation has less effect on perceived system performance.
Whilst 'defragging' OS X is rarely necessary, Rod Hagen has produced this excellent analysis of the situation which is worth reading:
Most users, as long as they leave plenty of free space available , and don't work regularly in situations where very large files are written and rewritten, are unlikely to notice the effects of fragmentation on either their files or on the drives free space much.
As the drive fills the situations becomes progressively more significant, however.
Some people will tell you that "OSX defrags your files anyway". This is only partly true. It defrags files that are less than 20 MB in size. It doesn't defrag larger files and it doesn't defrag the free space on the drive. In fact the method it uses to defrag the smaller files actually increases the extent of free space fragmentation. Eventually, in fact, once the largest free space fragments are down to less than 20 MB (not uncommon on a drive that has , say only 10% free space left) it begins to give up trying to defrag altogether. Despite this, the system copes very well without defragging as long as you have plenty of room.
Again, this doesn't matter much when the drive is half empty or better, but it does when it gets fullish, and it does especially when it gets fullish if you are regularly dealing with large files , like video or serious audio stuff.
If you look through this discussion board you will see quite a few complaints from people who find that their drive gets "slow". Often you will see that say that "still have 10 or 20 gigs free" or the like. On modern large drives by this stage they are usually in fact down to the point where the internal defragmentation routines can no longer operate , where their drives are working like navvies to keep up with finding space for any larger files, together with room for "scratch files", virtual memory, directories etc etc etc. Such users are operating in a zone where they put a lot more stress on their drives as a result, often start complaining of increased "heat", etc etc. Most obviously, though, the computer slows down to a speed not much better than that of molasses. Eventually the directories and other related files may collapse altogether and they find themselves with a next to unrecoverable disk problems.
By this time, of course, defragging itself has already become just about impossible. The amount of work required to shift the data into contiguous blocks is immense, puts additional stress on the drive, takes forever, etc etc. The extent of fragmentation of free space at this stage can be simply staggering, and any large files you subsequently write are likely to be divided into many , many tens of thousands of fragments scattered across the drive. Not only this, but things like the "extents files", which record where all the bits are located, will begin to grow astronomically as a result, putting even more pressure on your already stressed drive, and increasing the risk of major failures.
Ultimately this adds up to a situation where you can identify maybe three "phases" of mac life when it comes to the need for defragmentation.
In the "first phase" (with your drive less than half full), it doesn't matter much at all - probably not enough to even make it worth doing.
In the "second phase" (between , say 50% free space and 20% free space remaining) it becomes progressively more useful, but , depending on the use you put your computer to you won't see much difference at the higher levels of free space unless you are serious video buff who needs to keep their drives operating as efficiently and fast as possible - chances are they will be using fast external drives over FW800 or eSata to compliment their internal HD anyway.
At the lower end though (when boot drives get down around the 20% mark on , say, a 250 or 500 Gig drive) I certainly begin to see an impact on performance and stability when working with large image files, mapping software, and the like, especially those which rely on the use of their own "scratch" files, and especially in situations where I am using multiple applications simultaneously, if I haven't defragmented the drive for a while. For me, defragmenting (I use iDefrag too - it is the only third party app I trust for this after seeing people with problems using TechToolPro and Drive Genius for such things) gives a substantial performance boost in this sort of situation and improves operational stability. I usually try to get in first these days and defrag more regularly (about once a month) when the drive is down to 30% free space or lower.
Between 20% and 10% free space is a bit of a "doubtful region". Most people will still be able to defrag successfully in this sort of area, though the time taken and the risks associated increase as the free space declines. My own advice to people in this sort of area is that they start choosing their new , bigger HD, because they obviously are going to need one very soon, and try to "clear the decks" so that they maintain that 20% free buffer until they do. Defragging regularly (perhaps even once a fortnight) will actually benefit them substantially during this "phase", but maybe doing so will lull them into a false sense of security and keep them from seriously recognising that they need to be moving to a bigger HD!
Once they are down to that last ten per cent of free space, though, they are treading on glass. Free space fragmentation at least will already be a serious issue on their computers but if they try to defrag with a utility without first making substantially more space available then they may find it runs into problems or is so slow that they give up half way through and do the damage themselves, especially if they are using one of the less "forgiving" utilities!
In this case I think the best way to proceed is to clone the internal drive to a larger external with SuperDuper, replace the internal drive with a larger one and then clone back to it. No-one down to the last ten percent of their drive really has enough room to move. Defragging it will certainly speed it up, and may even save them from major problems briefly, but we all know that before too long they are going to be in the same situation again. Better to deal with the matter properly and replace the drive with something more akin to their real needs once this point is reached. Heck, big HDs are as cheap as chips these days! It is mad to struggle on with sluggish performance, instability, and the possible risk of losing the lot, in such a situation.

BEWARE: Drive Genius 2.0.2 ate a partition. 2.0.2 is beta at best.

Before you hassle me about making backups, don't bother. A disk utility like Drive Genius should require backups for when unforeseeable occurrences (power losses, disconnection, etc.) happen. When the application crashes itself- there are more issues than just the data loss : stress of time loss to find a repair scenario that works or (if you have one) restoring a backup after repairing the drive (non-productivity, messed up workflow which for a designer is just the worst because you completely lose your place in pipeline), financial loss for a worthless application you will never trust again, general bad day feeling.
DO NOT DEFRAG!!!! I will never touch this software or anything from ProSoft again. I don't trust them and I think this 2.0.2 update is a horrendous step backwards from what was once a decent application for directory repair.
I can't believe in all my experience I made the mistake of purchasing/trusting Drive Genius 2.0.2 with my MBP.
Defrag is EXTREMELY dangerous. On a perfectly clean running MBP 10.5.2 with TechTool Pro reporting everything to be perfect I decided, hey, why not give a defrag a try- prosoft must have be legitimate in including this feature? NO!
No processes running at all other than drive genius and system processes Drive Genius crashed at 59%. The crash corrupted the directory structure to the point that Disk Utility cannot mount the drive or repair citing "B-Tree" problems. Disk Warrior cannot rebuild and cannot see the drive otherwise. Thank God this was an external drive but I still have lost 460GB of data and to say I'm furious is an understatement. These files are my personal data (graphics, renderings, movies, etc, etc). As many people know who work in design, working from a MBP is tricky without large external drives. Backing up several of these is **** and often neglected. Maybe this will teach me a lesson though ...
I can understand Drive Genius 2.0.2 saying that power failure can cause data loss in the warning before you defrag, but, when Drive Genius itself is crashing and destroying a partition I just can't forgive. This application is a POS. If Apple is really using this at the Genius Bar I'm going to think twice about ProCare in the future.
A disk utility application that crashes itself (log shows this) is frightening. What was intended to optimize a computer has now cost me several hours without any avail. I am about to throw in the towel and accept responsibility in being stupid enough to run software like this.
Maybe ProSoft should have considered spending more time on the application than the lame 3D interface which just escapes me as having a purpose or benefit in a disk utility. It just seems against logic to have 3d Graphics running during any disk process. I don't want it. I want a graph of the progress ... IF ANYTHING.
I highly advise discretion in using this application. Save yourself the money and stress. This release is worhtless.

I fully concur with this post. Drive Genius is a piece of expensive "crap." No, I did not back up my drive because I did not know how and couldn't find a "simple" solution at the time, until I found Superduper nearly a year later. DG "defrag" app wiped out my pictures and I have NEVER been able to recover them even tho' I have kept the drive available until a good recovery app comes along. DG documentation is as useless as their 'support.' I bought the app from OWC and haven't been back since. Once burned, I NEVER go back. That's my way of a protest!
The lesson in this, for me, is to NEVER defrag your drive on OS X, no matter what the documentation says. It shouldn't even be offered as an option.
Currently, I'm having trouble with Disk Utility resizing a partition. The documentation simply doesn't tell how to do it to make it work successfully. This feature is one reason I bought Leopard. Now it doesn't work for me. The one good thing is that it didn't erase the data on my primary drive, but the the partition I wanted to resize is now lost to me. In my view, this feature is also "beta." Why does ANY software developer design an app without thoroughly testing it? That's just like starting a preemptive war without checking out the consequences. Bummer!!!

Drive Genius shows a streak of stupidity and screws up my hard drive

I tried defragging my hard drive (so I could install something in Boot Camp) with Drive Genius (from a 10.5 partition on my external drive), and suddenly it stops. I try again, not noting the error message, and I get:
FATALDISKERROR: Overlapped extents found (extent 2 overlaps extent 1 by 1189 blocks)
I have no idea what to make of this, and so I try everything in the repair section of the app. Repair and Rebuild only show:
Repairing volume...
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect block count for file iNode386845
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Incorrect block count for file iNode386846
(It should be 1 instead of 3)
Incorrect block count for file iNode386850
(It should be 1 instead of 14)
Invalid extent entry
Invalid node structure
Volume check failed.
Checking for errors in the extents map...
Rebuild Failed.
I'm currently cloning my MacBook's internal drive to an image. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this mess.

Eh, crap. Forgot to close this thread.
Anyway, I was bored enough to outline this problem:
-Tried using Drive Genius to defrag internal drive, but it failed horribly somehow and caused many problems that started this horrible mess
-Used a Maintenance partition on external drive full of utilities and crap during this "incident"
-Disk Warrior fixed that, but moved files from their original spots to /Recovered Files, most of them are Xerox printer things located in /Library/Printers/Xerox; both those are deleted (Secure Empty Trash), will have to reinstall those
-AppCleaner complains about there not being a "/Library/Application Support/AppCleaner/AppCleaner Daemon" and doesn't let MB start up, making the directory and chmod 777-ing it, didn't do anything
-Backed up by CCC after all the above happened and before the reinstall and Drive Genius before all the above happened
-Tried reinstalling via upgrade method, didn't work so restored from backup
-Tried Archive and Install, worked!
Now I've traded Macs with my brother and also upgraded the RAM on both. C'est nice!

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