Cannot Be Defrag.ed

[Brogan]

My system contains two files which are completly hidden and cannot be defraged and causes Defrag to abort. Defrag can find and list these files but follow the path in windows and they do not exist.

Have tried adding them to the Exclude list but cannot because windows cannot display them and I cannot type in the file names.

These files are:

1. $ObjId:$O

2. $UsnJrnl:$J

 

I am thinking I really need to get these files Excluded.

Advice please

Brogan

[Nergal]

You dont need to defrag them, they are locked by the system so you could attempt a boot time defrag but I don't know if it will get them.

Edit1

To exclude them, have (temporarily) windows show system files, then add them to exclude, then rehide system files

[Brogan]

Thanks Nergal, I already have my sys. set to show all system files & contents and it's still a no show.

The ONLY way to exclude them is to do a manuel defrag and un-check them, however this cannot be done every morning @ 5 AM when DF comes on line and attemps a full DF.

There should be provisions in DF to handle files like these.

If I attemp a DF with these files included the DF always aborts when it encounters one of these files, so I can only assume all DF's also abort.

It could also be part of the problems some people have with incomplete DF'ing

 

Brogan