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To make room for new additions, you decide to remove books you have finished with from the
shelf. You remove a book here, another there, opening up gaps between the remaining books.
This makes some shelf space available, but does so in the form of gaps separated by the
remaining books. Sadly, when you obtain another large book, it may be too big to fit in any one
of the gaps. A foolish librarian might tear the new book into sections just big enough to fit into
the open spaces on the shelf. This is would obviously be unwise. When you wish to refer to the
book later you will lose a lot of time locating and assembling its sections before you can read it.
How much better it would be to slide the remaining books closer together, combining all the free
space first. Unfortunately, computers are ‘foolish librarians’. They tend to want to fill in all the
gaps in their storage areas, even if it means literally shredding your ‘book’ (in reality large video
files from your sessions) into tiny fragments.
Defragmenting the storage volume has the same effect as sliding the books together, resulting in
less and larger gaps. The end result is that 3Play™ doesn’t have to frantically search in many
different places to assemble the video data you have recorded. This process (defragmentation)
can take considerable time, so it’s not something you want to begin just before an important
event.
RESTORE TO FACTORY DEFAULTS
A complete system restore function is available in the event of an unforeseen problem. This
does not merely restore the operating system, or other data files. Rather, it restores the system
to an ‘as-shipped’ software state. Please refer to Section A.5.6 in Appendix A for full details and
usage notes.
5.2.5 HELP
Figure 51

Click the 3Play™ User Guide link to open the
manual.

Click the License Agreement link to review the
3Play™ end user license.

Click About 3Play™ to list version information,
credits and acknowledgments.