[I had to abort at 99% to shutdown my pc. Now its taking hours to defrag again]

anyway thank you for the help so far, i just gave up.. for now. When i have my notebook back i will defrag using it, since it use less energy, it will probably take several days unti the defrag is over. 

[I had to abort at 99% to shutdown my pc. Now its taking hours to defrag again]

On 15/03/2022 at 12:33, nukecad said:

Hi again @legendarysnake I'm not sure just what is going on for you.

But reading back through your posts I realised that we may be missing a piece of information that could be relevant.

You've said that it's a 2TB drive, but how much free space is there left on it?

The things you describe are the kind of things that can happen if there isn't enough free space on the drive.
It's usually recommended that you have 15% to 20% free space to sucessfully defragment a HDD.
https://www.howtogeek.com/324956/how-much-free-space-should-you-leave-on-your-windows-pc/
 

If this does apply to your drive then you could try moving some files off it onto another drive, that should then give the free space needed for a successful defrag.

PS. There is a way to do a 'manual' defrag of an external drive yourself, if you have a spare drive. (One that doesn't contain already fragmented files).
Simply moving/copying a file to a different drive, one that doesn't contain already fragmented files, will write that file to the new drive all in one unfragmented piece.
Moving/copying a bunch of files to another drive should do them one at once, thus defragmenting them in the process.

That's basically what a defragmenter does but all on one disc, it moves files and writes them in one piece to a free part of the disc, (then later moves them back when it's moved enough files to make sufficent continuous free space where they used to be), which is why it needs a percentage of free space to move the files about.

I'm not too sure about your compression method, is it actually moving the files?, but if you are compressing files onto another drive then it should do the same thing.

Sorry for taking so long to reply. I have 561gbs free(30%). Well, after that i compressed to rar and got ride of a lot of files(since they are compressed now). The defragmentation went up to 20% of the disk. Heres my current stats of the drive. And how many files are on it(courtesy of tree size)

 

[I had to abort at 99% to shutdown my pc. Now its taking hours to defrag again]

To be honest, im out of blue of this discussion about clusters haha. 

nukecad and augeas its interesting to read about your discussion im also happy that you guys are learning stuff with it.

 

So about the defrag. im really losting my patience. Yesterday i moved a single file to my disk before do the defrag and voila. now its 112gb fragmented files instead of just 50gb. So i had an idea. Since i have lots of files(specially image files) im compressing then to .rar to see if theres any diference. So instead of 200 files of images now i have a single .rar. 

I have used Treesize and used a option to see how many files does my hdd have. at the moment i have 32.526 files..

So like i said, im trying to reduce compressing it. When defraggler is doing his work, i noticed that a single .jpg file can take 5 seconds to be defragmented. 

 

Anyway, what you guys think about my idea to reduce the file using winrar to make the defraggler faster? will it work?

[I had to abort at 99% to shutdown my pc. Now its taking hours to defrag again]

Hi, and wow i didnt expected a 50 lines of text haha! So if defraggler its doing consolidating on my drive right? 

 

"

By default Defraggler does a combination of both consolidation and defragmentation, but you can also specify one or the other." or that one. 

 

If defraggler does have both options, what exactly windows does? I tried in the past(on windows 7 ultimate) to defrag with windows and its even slower. 

 

I think that i moved so many files on this hdd on the last 2 years maybe that is taking over 30 hours(so far) to finish it. 

A new info that i have is that i just pressed the stop button and the defragmentation aborted. When i resume it, voilá! is back to 50% again. I didnt knew that defraggler actually saves the progress of it. But damn, its really taking long. My hdd on windows take much less time to do it... probably because its a 7200 rpm hdd instead of a... i dont know how much spin an external hdd from seagate usb 3.0 actually has. 

 

"To do a 'file only' defragment in Defraggler:
Open defraggler and analyse the drive.
Click on 'View Files' or click on the 'Files' tab.
Select the tickbox at the top of the list to select everything found.
Click on 'Defrag Checked'."

 

im gonna try this when this defrag finishes . Now its at 88%(38% progress today) after 13 hours with the pc on. And maybe i will finish tomorrow. 

 

Thanks for helping

[I had to abort at 99% to shutdown my pc. Now its taking hours to defrag again]

yesterday when i shut my pc it had 3515 total fragments left. Today when i started it said that it has now 4635 total fragments. 

 

From 5 hours ago it has also 535 fragmented files(whatever that mean) and now its only 532. 

 

Still 7% fragmentation. Why its taking so long? Its not possible to save my progress to a text file and restore the progress? Im on the same situation today. I need to shutdown my pc again with 50% of fragmentation happening. 

Its a 2tb external hdd. 

 

The point is, it makes no sense that the fragmentation didnt finished yet. 

 

I just restarted and continued to 50% but now it has 13% fragmentation! I really dont get how defraggler works...