Hi, I've read both the pinned Why is my free space going down (disabling VSS) and I've lost over 200 GB (while defraging free space) articles. I have tried multiple attempts at defraging the free space now, first time I had not read the articles and noticed very slow to defrag, high disk activity and yellow square reading the same block until I stopped the run. I then checked the box pertaining to stop VSS when defragmenting NTFS volume as well as deleting SR points and turning off the windows system restore completely for the drive then tried re-running defraggler as before the free space decreased while the use space increased I tried on both defrag free space with and without defragmenting (from the advanced menu) in all cases I had NOT optimized with move large files to the end (of disk) and this option was not enabled.
Incidentally I was hoping that I would see blocks moving from the end to the front during this process but the program seemed only interested in what appeared to be fine near the front (beginning) where there were no gaps and did not look like it needed to be processed.
Has anyone else noticed this?
AT the start User space: 119 668 412 416 bytes
Free space: 1 229 279 797 248 bytes
some time later (showing done 1% completed)
User space: 119 895 130 112 bytes up 226 717 696
Free space: 1 229 053 075 456 bytes down 226 721 792
So if the numbers are to be believed my user space is growing and free space shrinking. I never completed the defrag as I think it would not finish in a reasonable time.(in fact I doubt it would finish at all).