10 hours of defraggler @1% completion

Defraggler
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Hello!

I have an issue with defraggler, and I’m not quite sure what to do about it.

I have run multiple sessions of defraggler and find that the completion counter never reaches 2%, and the "remaining time" never finishes calculating.

I have already been to Settings > Options > Advanced, stopped VSS and went into custom fragmentation settings and made sure both boxes were checked.

First Analysis said my HDD was 19% fragmented with 9000 files (My hard drive was only 50% full, 500GB out of 1TB)

After half an hour, the fragmented file count was dropping and the process was at 1%, still no calculated remaining time.

I check back a few hours later, and fragmented files is back at 9000!

I then run assortments of Windows defrags, Quick defraggler defrags, and got it to just 16% fragmentation.

In the first few minutes, fragmented file count dropped from 1400 to 1275. A few minutes later, and it’s increasing again.

Is this supposed to happen? And I'm positive this isn't supposed to take as long as 10+ hours for 1%.

Help is appreciated. Thanks

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I did some digging and found this thing called MSI interrupts (I disabled it earlier in a different project.) Will report back later with updates from it.

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I think I've fixed it (not related to my last reply), how do I close a topic?

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can't close a topic.

it's good to leave it as it may help others.

good to hear you got it sorted.

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Basically, if anyone else had the same problem, it's because there are too many files to defrag (I had 90+GB). I started seeing some actual numbers when I brought that number down to 20GB