Extending scripts to run Slow Optimize based on age

[csalsa]

Hi

This approach could be solved by having two Windows Scheduled tasks.  But I thought to suggest if the scripts could be enhanced for this problem.

The enhancement would be:
1. On executing the main script, fetch the last time one or more scripts have been run (say from the Windows registry or local data file).  The last time 'fast update' and 'slow optimize' have been run.

2. The main script has rules, say if age of last run of a script, say 'slow optimize', is older than 'x' days, then run that script.

This requires storing and fetching of the datetime of last execution of a script, comparing age, and then being able to launch a script from within a script.

This has the advantage of scheduling one task (as already happens in the installer) and having the having the 'slow optimize' run every couple of weeks (as is suggested in the tips in the manual).

Would this be useful?

[jeroen]

2. The main script has rules, say if age of last run of a script, say 'slow optimize', is older than 'x' days, then run that script.

Thanks for sharing your idea, I appreciate it. Perhaps in the future I will add something like that, but at the moment I do not want to extend the MyDefrag scripting language into a full programming language, with things such as number calculations, string manipulations, if-then, while, goto, and many other things commonly found in programming languages.

Perhaps a tip: use your favorite programming language to do what you want, and then from that language call MyDefrag. Practically all programming languages have a facility to run other programs.