All right, here I am again.

IOBit's Smart Defrag finally did it: about 8hrs of analysis, and then about 18hrs of defragmentation, and the disk was OK again.  And to think that HTTrack created this mess in only a few days..

So Kudo's to IOBit for really fast defragmenting, and to Auslogics for really fast analysis (if no more than 2000 fragmented files are created per day, their screensaver is great: give it five minutes or more and it will do useful work in that time).

And to MyDefrag, of course, for giving really fine-grained control over the disk layout!

Anybody for combining these three properties into a single program?

Greetings,
Biep.

Yep - most defragmenters choke on my drive.  The one great exception is Auslogics (the free screensaver version).  It analyses the drive in less than 5 minutes, whereas 6 hours is the minimum with other defragmenters!

If someone knows how they do it, maybe this could be built into MyDefrag.

(The downside is that it finds 770.000 fragmented files, and defrags about 2000 per day - which means a year long of defragmenting..)

The real culprit is WinHTTrack, which creates files with millions of fragments..  I live in Africa, and this drive is my "portable Internet", so whenever I can I rip interesting sites.

I have this problem too: My IOmega 1.5Tb hard drive is about 1/3 full, with some 3.000.000 files, some of which are heavily fragmented (over 1.000.000 fragments per file).  Running "Defragment only", it takes MD about a full day to analyse, and then it simply sits there, hardly using the CPU, but also only once every three hours or so doing something on the drive for less than a second.
About half the drive is a single chunk of free space, so fast defragmentation ought to do it all; no deep analysis necessary: loop through the files, and whenever there is a fragmented one, move it into the free space as one whole - so I have no idea what it is doing.
Oh, it IS doing something, because screen updates are terribly slow while it is running (I am typing blind as the screen cannot keep up with my typing; Alt+Tab may take up to 15 minutes).

Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I know this is currently impossible - that's why it is a request for a new feature.

I have a lot of USB devices, for some of which I have special defrag preferences.  I should like to be able to write a script that looks if a file on the volume is present, and if so, includes the contents of that file as a macro.  If not, then a default value should be included instead.

In stead of the default value, it would be possible to use another file - one with an absolute path.  It would be trivial to ensure that such a file exists.

Obviously, this should be a volume action, because the volume must be known for this to work.

This would obviate the need for separate "system disk" and "data disk" scripts - the system disk would have the specific file, and the data disks would do the default thing.

Thanks for a great product!
Biep - http://biep.org