[Defraggler hangs with new versions]

I've been a Defraggler user since last year, but only recently I've noticed the following. Whenever I install a new version of the program, starting with 1.06+ , Defraggler hangs up. I can analyse my hard drive and navigate a little through the menus, but then it irremediably hangs up, and I have to terminate the program with Ctrl+Alt+Del.

 

It only happens with versions 1.06+ . I'm stuck with version 1.05 because of this, which doesn't crash at all. I have a P4 2.8 Ghz and I'm using XP Pro.

 

What a weird bug... Any ideas?

 

I had a similar problem with 1.07 when I first tried it. it seemed to be unstable when there is a very large number of fragmented files. I had several thousand. I tried defragging a few at a time until I got the list down to a more manageable size. That took care of the "hang up" problem for me. If that is the problem, it's something that Piriform needs to work on.

[deleting files doesn't work]

Excuse me if I'm doing something wrong but I've scanned my hard drive with recuva and result was 45.000 files ready to recover or delete. I've deleted those files but then I ran a second scan and found out that those 45.000 files weren't really deleted as them appeared once again on the list.

So, my question: is this thing working for "safe delete" of files ?

 

thanks for your help and please forgive my lame english

 

I have a similar problem, but it goes beyond just the file names. Using a Recuva deep scan, I found a large number of .png thumbnails. I have overwritten them using Recuva, wiped the free space using the latest version of CCleaner and wiped the free space using the latest version of Eraser (including the overwrite directory listing option). Other recovery programs no longer find them, but the Recuva deep scan still finds them including the ability to preview the thumbnails. What don't I understand?