Defrag freespace and Defrag freespace (allow fragmentation)

Defraggler
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Hi,

My HDD has been defragged in the normal way and then I defragged the file list. After do this my system ran much faster in all respects, I then defragged the freespace and then noticed my system was not running as fast, files would take more time to load up. So I am now defraggling free space (allowing fragmentation) in hope things will run much faster again.

I have read the help files on this but don't really understand what the difference is?

Which is better with or without fragmentation?

Thanks

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These settings are bugged. Both of them will create some random fragmentation. This is a long standing bug I don't know why it isn't fixed.

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Ok thanks, so best not use them just stick with normal defrag and boot defrag then until bug is fixed.

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Well, you can always do a fast free space defragmentation and manually defragment remaining fragmented files from filelist. On the other hand, the freespace defragmentation in DF isn't very thorough but it's fast.