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Defraggler Drive Map does not create or allow a scroll bar for user to cursor up or down to view the entire drive map during routine use.

 

As per:

At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation.

 

Now the entire drive map can be displayed but I seem to need to resize both of the upper and lower screen panels.

That is the area showing the list of drives which "has" a vertical scroll bar and the lower panel or area that shows both the program Status and Drive properties.

 

Not that this cannot be "worked around" to see full drive map but suggest that if a vertical scroll bar was included with Drive Map would facilitate user review of drive map and program status and avoid the need to resize the Defraggler Window during a drive fragmentation where the Drive Map is being monitored.

 

Above noted for Version: 1.18.185

 

HTH

 

Mike

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The drive map should resize automatically to fill available space while displaying the whole drive.

Could you provide screenshots to show what you mean ?

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The drive map should resize automatically to fill available space while displaying the whole drive.

Could you provide screenshots to show what you mean ?

 

After doing some testing earlier today - I realize that what you described may or actually is the case.

 

I was interpreting the changes I observed when moving the window size around as simply "accessing" more of the drive map. Appeared today that the Drive Map may just be a "relative" display anyway. Seems on re-sizing that some of the blocks "change" or become more or less of an approximation of the Drive Map. As such appears this is not a simple "scroll issue" but I do note changes in the block pattern over time on resizing that I cannot account for other than the display "approximates" what is actually "there".

 

In my current display having run a "free space" defrag only I was able to isolate some of this issue as I had an area surrounded by Free Space with some non-fragmented files.

 

As such I could note and follow changes in an area that contained:

Empty blocks - with a block of unfragmented data bracketed with two more blocks that were slightly lighter in color (blue - but not a shade shown in the legend) but clearly different from the color of an empty block. As I increased the size of the Drive Map this area changed from an area of Empty blocks surrounding an area of "3 blocks" of a color different to that of an empty block to one in which there are now "5" blocks of different color (three of these match the legend color for a non fragmented block and these three blocks then have a lighter blue block on either end).

 

As such this (Drive Map display behavior) is much like a "microscope effect" where one is simply seeing more detail on re-sizing and I confused this with having thought I had "scrolled the display" into different areas of an existing Drive Map when I was simply re-sizing the display and accessing more or less detail.

 

Thanks for the follow-up. Appears this is not a simply "scroll bar" type of a fix or change as I originally suspected was the case.

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