science man
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The issue got fixed after I stopped VSS and let the full defrag run all the way through. What does VSS stand for though?
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Why is multi-thread defragging not possible?
science man replied to science man's topic in Defraggler
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Hey guys I googled about multi-threaded defragging and and found this answer. "It's not a limitation of the software. Hard drives aren't designed for parallel processing so multi-threaded defragging isn't really beneficial." But I don't understand, if hard drives aren't designed for it then how do you explain all the other multi-threaded programs out there? (multi-threaded gaming, video converting, ect)
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Oh ok. Thanks. I cleaned off 112 gig and that seems to have helped because now I restarted the defrag process (regular not the quick one) and it seems to be doing the job much quicker. It should be completed in a day or two.
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Well I discovered it's a file in the folder called "system volume information" which I'm going to try to compress, that defraggler is making larger and larger.
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Btw what does VSS stand for?
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Update: I aborted the defrag and am doing a quick instead. According to what it says the fragmented percentage has actually increased.
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Well this is odd after doing that and running disk cleanup itself, according defraggler the number of free bytes has dramatically dropped, Is it possible defraggler is mis-reading the size info?
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Maybe it already did but I'm not sure. Free Space bytes says, a number that's a little over 690,000,000,000 bytes but next that it says 648.2 gig are free. What's the deal?
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Hey guys I've been using defraggler for a few months now. I recently got a new machine loaded all my stuff onto it and am now defragging the drive with defraggler. After getting part way through the job I noticed my free space drastically decreased and continued to. I saw the thread about checking the option "stop VVS...." I did so, and now it seems to be decreasing at a much slower rate. But I want to know, throughout the rest of the defrag job will I get back free space I lost from when I didn't have that option checked?