defragmenting

milk mclane

Join Date 07/2007

defragmenting

hi all, i recently used auslogics free disk defragmenter, it worked well and seemed to speed up performance imediately after i had used it, then the next day, the performance and speed was back to previous levels, so i ran the defragmenter again and it showed still large numbers of red fragmented files,more so than after the program had run previously. so i defraged again, and nearly all the red files remained. i then analysed the hard drive and auslogics told me that there was only 11% fragmentation? according to the screen showing file status over half were fragmented, and would not go away?

any help on whats going on would be appreciated

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For a minute I thought yrag changed his name.

That makes two of us.I'm easily confused,ya know.

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Damn, honestly didn't realise there was another one on here as wouldn't have gone for it. I changed my last one as there was one of them too... sorry! Changed!

Will begin the hunt for another one..... there we go

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Quoting gmc2,

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stupid question time: seems that I remember (a long time ago) a defragger that claimed to remove old files and reclaim the disc space, instead of just making those files somewhat inaccessible. Are there any defraggers today that make any such claim???

Don't know about anyone else, but I would not want a defrag program to decide which 'old files' to delete.

Just because a file hasn't been accessed in a while does not mean it is not wanted, or needed.

And a file can not be made to become "somewhat inaccessible". It is either there, or it isn't. Age or the number of fragments has nothing to do with it.

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

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Don't know about anyone else, but I would not want a defrag program to decide which 'old files' to delete.

I making the assumption that a file that I have already deleted is flagged in the directory somehow as such. nor would I want a program that made it's own decision based on someone else's mind set of what to delete.

"somewhat inaccessible" I realize that files that have been deleted can be sometimes restored depending on various factors, however not by me. I'm sure there are many who could search for deleted files and probably restore them also, but again, it ain't me. ergo, inaccessible to me but accessible to others with talent.

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