$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\$TxfLog.blf

Hi Guys and Gals,

I have used this very good defragger here for a while on my old puter.

Now have a new laptop running windows 8.2. Windows 8.2 seems to create MANY fragmented files.

The file "$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\$TxfLog.blf" on my puter may be corrupted. It is fragmented and won't be defragged.

The defragging stops at this file and won't proceed.

Any ideas on what it is and how/if to delete it? Or how do I proceed past it ?

I can't find this file on my laptop, it's hidden.

Tx, Sprinty

Hello Sprinty and welcome to the forum. First, do not delete this file, it is a system file that stores file information such as timestamps, read/write permissions and so on. Deleting it could lead to filesystem chaos and a non-working computer. This is why Microsoft has made it a hidden file.

Second, I believe this file cannot be defragmented while Windows is running. Have you tried doing a boot time defrag with Defraggler? The instructions are here: http://www.piriform.com/docs/defraggler/defraggler-settings/boot-time-defrag

Third, I found this link after doing a Google search. It gives instructions how to clean this file during system reboot: http://mydefrag.com/FAQSpecialFiles-HowDoIDefragmentCExtendRmMetadataTxfLogTopsTDATA.html

However, since this is third party information, and I have never tested it (nor do I care to), proceed at your own risk! Please do not hold me accountable for any bad results!

Hi Guys and Gals,

Now have a new laptop running windows 8.2. Windows 8.2 seems to create MANY fragmented files.

The file "$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\$TxfLog.blf" on my puter may be corrupted. It is fragmented and won't be defragged.

The defragging stops at this file and won't proceed.

Any ideas on what it is and how/if to delete it? Or how do I proceed past it ?

I can't find this file on my laptop, it's hidden.

Tx, Sprinty

Beta Applications are NOT supported by Piriform

Beta operating systems will probably be severely damaged

From where did you get Windows 8.2 :unsure:

Third, I found this link after doing a Google search. It gives instructions how to clean this file during system reboot: http://mydefrag.com/FAQSpecialFiles-HowDoIDefragmentCExtendRmMetadataTxfLogTopsTDATA.html

However, since this is third party information, and I have never tested it (nor do I care to)

It's from the same developer who made JkDefrag, fully trustworthy!

It's from the same developer who made JkDefrag, fully trustworthy!

Silly me! If I had followed the link to the home page, the name J.C. Kessels is right there! You learn something new every day.

Maybe he means 6.2 which is Windows 8, Alan!

He probably means Win 8.1

There is an 8.2 on the way, it may become 9.0, I think it has a name "Threshold" - but that was yesterday and today I forget.

Perhaps we have been visited by a Beta Tester because Microsoft want to make their next version of Windows compatible with Piriform's range of products :rolleyes:

The last thing I read was that Microsoft was skipping the 8.2 version and going straight to the 9.0 release. Reported timelines vary, from a wildy optimistic April 2014 to a more likely January 2015. Maybe Sprinty could elaborate on exactly what he has and where he obtained it.

Another fine derrailed thread, heh.

Another fine derrailed thread, heh.

I agree, go back to the subject and stop discussing what was obviously a typo

To follow up on post #2, I opened an elevated command prompt and entered "fsutil resource info c:\" and found the space used by Tops was 368MB. Then I entered "fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\" and exited. After a system restart, there was about 30 seconds of high disk activity. Then I entered the first command again and found the space used by Tops was 2MB. So this command does clean out the Tops data file, whether or not it is defragmented in the process is another issue.