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When installing Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro, I received an error that files couldn’t be moved to create the Windows partition. Rather than take the Boot Camp Assistant’s advice and format the drive, I decided to enter the world of OS X Disk Defragmenting tools. I settled on iDefrag. The reviews were positive, and the bundled CD Maker app makes it a clear winner: you can build a bootable iDefrag CD that will be able to defrag your Mac’s boot drive.

After a successful defrag pass, I was able to partition my drive just fine.

I ran into this issue hard last week when I tried to install the port for rdiff-backup using MacPorts. Rdiff-backup depends on python24, and when trying to build that port I was getting this error:

make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1

Ultimately, I was bitten by being space conscious when I installed XCode on this Mac: I hadn’t installed the Quicktime, CoreAudio, or OpenGL SDKs since I had no plans to use them. The python port, however, needs them.