Lasse Ronnenberg

Here is another suggestion (for high end machine users): Animate the movement of the colored blocks! Reason: I have used the option to customize the size and colors of the displayed blocks in defraggler, but with the blocks being barely 3x3 pixels big, and with black for "writing" and dark blue for "reading" it is hard to see what is actually going on while defraggler is working. So; How about a little animation that "lifts" all of the blue blocks across the map and places them together in the new black spot? I realize that such an animation might be longer than the time it takes for the PC to actually move the files, but I am sure you could make the animation run independant of the actual defragmentation process, so that they do not interfere with each other. The animation should have an option to show or to disable it, and it should only run while Defraggler is NOT minimized. To do it, Defraggler could perhaps just maintain a list of changes during defrag, and start animating the affected blocks as soon as they are being processed. This will result in multiple animations occuring simultaneously. In effect, it will look like Defraggler is doing a million things at once because of all the fragments that are being moved across the screen and being gathered into defragmented files

It is a Seagate 1500GB. After I rebooted the second time, (it was running slower and slower, taking longer and longer before reading files from the drive) I let Windows 7 (64-bit) run a chkdisk - after which the disk became 'unreadable'. Notice that I discovered the slowness BEFORE updating Defraggler - I tried a defragg to REPAIR the slowness.

So my brand new HDD gives me worry. So I update and run defraggler. So I analyze the HDD (See first picture). But when I start defragging files, the view is updated (see second picture). Question: Has anyone else ever experienced this? (Can anyone else help me figure out what's wrong with my HDD?)

So I see that most of it (except manual destination selection for defragmented files) has already been accomplished, but there is more: How about an option to defrag folders! When Defraggler was done, some small files were defragged and spread across the entire harddrive. If Defraggler could somehow scan the folder structure, you could add an option to defrag an entire folder, causing all game-files to lie in a neat order on the harddrive. Thus avoiding a big game having its small sound and text-files spread out. Like treating the folder like a file and defragging all of the files in it to the same spot on the HDD!

Uninteresting Background details: I had a problem with defraggler when I was fooling around with my "pagefile.sys". And maybe Windows-defrag was secretly running in the background. Defraggler took my HDD with 2% fragmented files and increased it to ~30% fragmented files. It was painful. I could see Defraggler splitting up my files, and I didn't want to use Microsoft's defrag to fix it - so I ran Defraggler 6 times before my files were somewhat defragmented. I could see how my free-space had become fragmented and I saw the problems it was causing for Defraggler (almost as if defraggler fails to remove data that is blocking the defragmenting of a fragmented file). My suggestion: Could you add an option that gives me manual control of the colored squares in Defragglers status-display? So if the freespace is a mess and I have lots of big files left, then I could just click & drag some of those light-blue blocks to another area of the HDD and eventually free enough white squares to drag one of the large fragmented files into it's place. So when I click a block, Defraggler should read which file is there and select all fragments of that file. Then when I drag my mouse to a white spot and release, then Defraggler will put all the selected fragments in a neat (defragmented) row, right there! I love manual control, it would really please me if I could just click & drag & drop my files to anywhere on my harddrive. Then I could drag all of the large files to the end of the drive and leave them there. Windows does not allow you to choose where on the harddrive you want to put stuff It would also enable me to sort my freespace any way I want! Possible problems: each colored square may hide multiple files or fragments. This could be solved by either selecting them all and have Defraggler count the number of files represented and placing them in sorted order when the mouse is released on a white square. Or Defraggler could just select the top-most file and let you move it. But then you would have to click a lot of times when a square conceals numerous tiny files.