1.5 Gb Memory usage and 230MB logfile

[zaleksf]

Also, following this defrag the useable space on my drive was reduced from 85Gb free to 71Gb free.
For more information see Why do I have less diskspace after running MyDefrag?

Thanks for your quick reply. I had followed your tip on this earlier (removing shadow copies); I just need to do it again.

I'm attaching a file that has the beginning and end of the .debuglog file.

SZ

[jeroen]

Thanks for the logfile. Yes, the logfile shows that MyDefrag runs out of memory while sorting the filenames. It needs to construct all the full paths of all the directories on your disk in order to sort by name, and this takes more memory than your computer has available. The LowerMemoryUsage() setting will not help because that will only clean up the paths after they are no longer needed. I am sorry but you cannot use the SlowOptimize script. The FastOptimize script should work, it uses less memory.

[zaleksf]

Thanks. I'll work with the FastOptimize script and see how things go.

[zaleksf]

Could you please add the following line to your "C:\Program Files\MyDefrag v4.0b11\Scripts\Settings.MyD" script and test it? I have to admit that I have never tested MyDefrag with offline files, I do not have machines set up for that.

Code:

ExcludeFiles(Offline(yes))

Sure - I'm currently re-syncing my Offline files, so when that's done, I'll try a SlowOptimize both with and without that setting.

The experiments that I did myself show no problems with encryption, but I will test some more.

Maybe its the combination of Offline and EFS?  Not sure... I didn't see any specific encryption issues either, but thought I'd bring it up.

Wow! I just utilized the ExcludeFiles(Offline(yes)) statement within my Settings.MyD script file, and the time it required to complete Zone 1 went from 3 hours down to about 5 minutes! I do have many offline files on my system...

[jeroen]

Wow! I just utilized the ExcludeFiles(Offline(yes)) statement within my Settings.MyD script file, and the time it required to complete Zone 1 went from 3 hours down to about 5 minutes! I do have many offline files on my system...

That's very interesting, thanks for the feedback. Were you online or offline at the time? If the exclude is not in the Settings.MyD then does it help to be online or offline? I see a service called "Offline Files" in the service manager, does it help to turn that off just before running MyDefrag? On the internet I see that offline files are stored in a folder called "C:\Windows\CSC", was MyDefrag slow on that folder or somewhere else? And on which Windows are you, XP, Vista, what?

I am wondering what exactly is happening inside Windows there. I don't know too much about offline files, I've never used it, but I think they are copies on your computer of files on a network disk? And if you change them then the changes are automatically copied to the network. So, MyDefrag should not ignore offline files, because they take up space on the local harddisk.

[cg]

That's very interesting, thanks for the feedback. Were you online or offline at the time? If the exclude is not in the Settings.MyD then does it help to be online or offline? I see a service called "Offline Files" in the service manager, does it help to turn that off just before running MyDefrag? On the internet I see that offline files are stored in a folder called "C:\Windows\CSC", was MyDefrag slow on that folder or somewhere else? And on which Windows are you, XP, Vista, what?

I am wondering what exactly is happening inside Windows there. I don't know too much about offline files, I've never used it, but I think they are copies on your computer of files on a network disk? And if you change them then the changes are automatically copied to the network. So, MyDefrag should not ignore offline files, because they take up space on the local harddisk.

Yes Offline files are stored in the CSC directory.  What a lot of people do is enable Offline Files AND turn on EFS encryption on their MyDocuments folder.  What this does is ensure that the user has access to their files while away from work, but also that they are encrypted as well.  So if the laptop is lost or stolen, the files aren't accessible unless the thief knows the user's login credentials.

I don't think its the Offline mode but rather the EFS which is causing the issue.   I'm hoping your change to open the files like JKDefrag does resolves this issue (and maybe others)