MyDefrag seems frozen....how long could it take??

[SeeD419]

Screenshot attached.

The past two days it gets to my hitachi and just can't seem to get anything done in zone 3.  Any ideas?  I've let it sit for hours.  Is this normal or what's going on here?

[SeeD419]

For fucks sake, the second I finally break down and POST this, guess what happens. 

It unfreezes and finally makes progress.  Lmfao, story of my life.

Awesome, I thought I found a bug.  Well, disregard!  I love this program so I'm glad it's working fine!  Must be the new fragmented terabyte drive that threw it off.

[Biep]

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).

[Kasuha]

I'm afraid your PC is spending way too much time swapping, that's why it seems to be running so slow. Maybe try normal windows defragmenter first, it does not need so much memory - and after you reduce number of file fragments, try MyDefrag again. But 3 mil files is a lot.

[codeblu]

true regular defragmenting does wonders to my pc ^^...

[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.

[BloodySword]

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.

Your drieve seems to be VERY slow.

[Darlis]

Your drieve seems to be VERY slow.

Or it's because of the 700,000 fragmented elements. The average user has only about 50,000-150,000 elements.

[BloodySword]

Mhhh even 50 000 items would take long on his system I think. :/

[Biep]

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.

[bherila]

Whenever I have static sets of gazillions of files, I tend to want them separated from my filesystem for a few reasons.

1. Defrag keeps them together
2. Ease of moving around, archiving, deleting the set.
3. Prevent cluttering the filesystem on the physical device.

I must recommend a utility called Pismo File Mount which will allow you to pack up each web site into a virtual filesystem container, similar to an ISO file but way better. Try it out! You'll thank me later :-)

Get it from http://www.pismotechnic.com - it's freeware.

Disclaimer: I am in no way related to PFM! It's just a tool I like to use.