Moving files to the end of the drive not work well.

[iX9]

Hi!

 

I waited for this option for looooong time.

 

It finally appears, but must be huge improved:

 

- When I want to move huge folder and all its contents to end of drive, Defraggler moves it about a minute or so, and then it stops. Requested folder remains far from complete! If I hit "Defragment" button again, situation is repeating - about max. few minutes moving, then two-times mouse cursor switch to "busy", and imediatelly after it - work is over.

 

- Need to manually move SELECTED folders/files to end of disk. Now, if I want only move something to the end of drive, I must specify it in "Settings -> Defrag -> Files/Folders" - AND - exclude everything else in "Settings -> Exclude" (this could be loong job!), and then defragment, even if I dont need to defrag (if drive fragmentation is OK).

 

- Search tab: could be used for this - right click to folder in the search results - there should be added an option "Move selected (or highlighted) folder AND it contents to end of disk". For now, this action only move the folder, not its content.

Or, (better), instead of using search, add a tab to select folders/files to do this?

 

Thanks for overthing this!

 

[hazelnut]

See this thread

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=43118

 

and in particular this post from one of the admins

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=43118&do=findComment&comment=260396

[iX9]

How to replicate the "stop" bug:

 

1.) Use my inifile as bellow. If your windows location differs, edit it. Check out the settings.

2.) Make enought room at the end of drive. Folder selected to move to end of drive is huge.

3.) Hit Defragment. Outside the defragmentation, it should move all in "\Windows\winsxs\" to end of disk.

       But! DF stops after few minutes and folder remains moved only partially.

4.) Hit Defragment again. DF moves next few files and then - in few seconds - ends.

5.) If you repeat this from morning to dusk, maybe - just maybe - you finally get moved all the content of the folder to desired end of line drive...

 

Note: Winsxs is choosen only as example, everyone probably have it. But it good demonstrate problem with huge folders moving.

I replicate it on all 3 computers I tryed.

 

 

The ini:

 

[software\Piriform\Defraggler]
MainWindowTopSplitterProportionalPos=1230
MainWindowBottomSplitterProportionalPos=4606
WasRunManualSilentUpdate=0
DisplaySSDVolumes=1
DisplayRemovableVolumes=1
DisplayUnmountedVolumes=1
DisplayEjectedVolumes=1
UpdateCheck=0
NewVersion=
UpdateFrequency=3
UpdateBackground=0
InstallPath=C:\Program Files\Defraggler
Executable=Defraggler64.exe
CleanupDriveBeforeDefrag=0
ShowCleanupPrompt=0
Priority=32801
CacheFileCollectionAfterDriveSwitch=1
DisableShellExtension=0
ReplaceWindowsDefrag=0
StopVssWhenDefrag=1
PreviousDefragPath=
ShowFragmentedFolderEntries=1
MinimizeToTray=0
MoveLargeFilesToEndOfDrive=1
MinLargeFileSize=0
MoveOnlySelectedLargeFileCategories=1
LargeFilesCategories=Movie files;0|Disk images;0|Archives;0|All;1
LargeFilesExtensions=*.avi|*.mkv|*.mpg|*.mov|*.mp4|*.mpeg|*.wmv<*.bin|*.iso|*.mdf|*.vhd<*.arj|*.tar|*.rar|*.zip|*.cab|*.7z<*.*
DefragFreeSpaceMoveLargeFiles=1
NativeMode=1
EnableNativeDefrag=0
DontApplyMinimumFileSizeToFilesFolders=1
ShowOptimizeZeroFillingWarning=1
QDUseCustomParameters=0
QDMinFragmentSize=1;50
QDMaxFragmentCount=0;2
QDMinFileSize=0;0
QDMaxFileSize=0;100
FFPolicy0=WC:1|*System Volume Information*|
FFPolicy1=WC:1|*hiberfil.sys|
Language=1029
CelsiusTemperatureFormat=1
DriveMapColors=0:128;1:0;2:16711935;3:255;4:255;5:16711680;6:16711680;7:16744448;8:65280;9:65408;10:16777215;11:4605510;12:16777215;
ColorsMode=1
DriveMapSettingsMode=2
DriveMapMinBlockWidth=3
DriveMapMinBlockHeight=3
DriveMapMode=0
DriveMapDrawingMode=0
DefragContextString=&Defragmentovat
AnalyzeContextString=Zkontrolovat fragmenta&ci
DisableBenchmarkAfterDefrag=1
window_left=72
window_top=80
window_width=1180
window_height=894
window_max=1
window_flags=0
filelist_columns=2;0;(0;180);(1;28);(2;101);(3;83);(4;490);(5;100);(6;100);
UpdateKey=19700101
DontApplyMinimumFileSizeToFilesFolders=1
DisableBenchmarkAfterDefrag=1
MoveToDriveEndFiles1=PATH|R|C:\Windows\winsxs|*