MisterBill

It appears that you're deleting too much stuff for Mailwasher Pro. I ran CCleaner and told it to clean MW, and got rid of LOTS of files, and now it seems to have lost a lot of classification knowledge. Now I have to mark lots of new emails as good rather than it already knowing it as it did previously. Sadly, I did not save the list of files deleted but I guess I can try it again (after copying them so I can put them back) and ask what shouldn't be deleted over on the Mailwasher board.

Out of curiosity, was something done to address this issue in the recent v2.02 update? I was finally able to compress the disk without losing space. BTW, I installed a new version of Treesize Free, and interestingly it offered to start itself in Administrator mode this time. When It did that, it saw a bunch of missing files and I was no longer missing allocated space on the drive. But there was still a problem with missing free space.

Yes, the table recommended 4k for a 1TB drive, but obviously that is what causes the problems. Oh well.

OK, so I decided to try the defrag again after I got the free space back up to 30%. It's been running for 12+ hours, and my free space dropped down to 10% fre (80gb). I paused the defrag, then tried the same cleanmgr (twice) and the space is not freed up. I am thinking it might be the CHKDSK /F that recovered the space, but I can't run that because I only paused the defrag and CHKDSK says that something else is using the drive and I do not want to let it dismount it. I read the stuff about 4k cluster sizes (which is what the drive has) but is there a way to fix that without destroying the contents of the drive? I think the big problem I have is a 180gb Win7 data migration file on the disk, it was what I used for transferring data from my old machine to this one. I'd rather not delete it. I probably have space on another drive to move it off the external drive so the defrag can run, and then I could put it back, but that will probably take a while to copy back and forth. They claim on the MS page that there is a user defined limit to the size of these shadow copy files. Any idea how to set the limit so it's low? Oh, and I am only at 38% complete, and my number of fragments has gone from 1815 at analysis to 2931 now.

Thanks. It was also Windows 7 Pro. I ran the cleanup, and it did not seem to solve the problem. Then I decided to go to the backup/restore program since I have backups stored there. It also claimed there was not a lot of free space. I did the cleanup a second time, and now my space is back (about 200gb worth). So I am not sure if the cleanup took longer than expected, or was not reflected immediately, but the good news is I have my free space back. Thanks.

I posted this in the bug reporting forum a couple of weeks ago and someone replied today that they were also seeing it. I am posting it here to see if it is more prevalent and if so, maybe it can get some attention. I was defragmenting my external drive. The partition I was doing is 781gb and was not close to being full. After running overnight and not getting very far, I cancelled it this morning and figured I would move a couple of large files to another disk so it would have an easier job of it. When I tried to restart it as a quick defrag, it warned me that there was less than 10% free space on the disk, which seemed very strange since I did not get the warning the first time. I ran Treesize on the drive and it's only finding 358.5gb in files on the disk, but both it and Defraggler are claiming I only have 10.8gb in free space (and I should say that it was 13gb before I started and then cancelled a quick defrag. CHKDSK and the internal disk check from Defraggler claim there are no errors on the disk. How do I get back my missing disk space???

Maybe it's time to post this in the normal discussion forum and see how prevalent this is. I am disappointed that there has not been any acknowledgment of the problem.

I was defragmenting my external drive. The partition I was doing is 781gb and was not close to being full. After running overnight and not getting very far, I cancelled it this morning and figured I would move a couple of large files to another disk so it would have an easier job of it. When I tried to restart it as a quick defrag, it warned me that there was less than 10% free space on the disk, which seemed very strange since I did not get the warning the first time. I ran Treesize on the drive and it's only finding 358.5gb in files on the disk, but both it and Defraggler are claiming I only have 10.8gb in free space (and I should say that it was 13gb before I started and then cancelled a quick defrag. CHKDSK and the internal disk check from Defraggler claim there are no errors on the disk. How do I get back my missing disk space???

No, it's still defragmenting files when it's at 100%.

I just installed this great tool and I noticed that the Defragmenting Status got to 100% long before the process actually ended. In my case it ran for 10 minutes longer before it actually completed. Is this a known problem? I have a screen shot but I'm not sure it's all that informative (plus I did not take it when it first started so it only shows one file remaining).