JWalker

I am writing a follow up. After i uninstalled Defraggler I continued to see my free space diminish significanty. I restored my HD to time before Defraggler was installed. Now I am not seeing the free space diminish. My curiosity was raised about the restore points storage. I checked it and less than 1 GB was stored the maximum was 50 GB. I wonder if some of the 50 GB began to show as data although there is little data shown. I reduced the maximum storage to about 3 GB to be sure.

Thanks for the replies. I am posting so my experience might be of use to Defraggler or some users. I did have vss checked when the shadow files were created and I do believe that Defraggler created the files. That is why I uninstalled it. I dearly hope that Defraggler did not create any other files that I cannot find. My HD has enough space that I will be ok in any case. Still since I try to be conservative in loading things onto my HD I would be a little upset to see 10-20 GB arrive on my HD for no reason. I trust that it did not happen once I got rid of shadow files. FWIW I could see the free space decrease directly after running Defraggler.

For sure shadow files were created because Disk Cleaner cleared out about 30 GB of them. I had no old restore files so it had to be shadow files. I don't know everything about shadow files but at this point they would seem to be duplicates. In the Defraggler Help it advises running Disk Cleaner to remove shadow file.

Here is a question. How do I check to see if Defraggler created duplicate files or other extra files? I installed a duplicate checker and found lots of duplicate files that were not due to Defraggler.

The sticky is not the answer. Already tried.

I won't criticize Defraggler but I felt it best to uninstall it and got to another program. Once again my free space was shrinking. The first time it happened I tried several things and free space was restored. My trouble began when I defragged free space. My solution was to defrag free space fragments allowed and the free space restored. The second and last time about 30 GB of free space disappeared. My solution was to use Disk Cleaner which comes with Windows and I went to the option of removing shadow copies and old restore points as recommended in the Defraggler Help. It brought back 30 GB of free space. Even with that recovery I may have lost 15-20 GB of free space since installing and using Defraggler. I did not keep track precisely of the free space but I have a general idea. I could say that my whole problem was related to using the defrag freespace. Had I not done that I might have been a happy user. I pass this experience on for what it is worth. I am using Win 7 Pro, 230 GB HD.

Thanks for the replies. It seems that Freespace Defrag has caused problems for others. If the problem is widespread I hope that the bug(s) are fixed. I can think of several measures like removing it from the program until fixed, or making better default choices. Very few users will know what to do with default choices and even fewer will view this forum.

I was finding DF to work very well using Defrag and Quick Defrag. Then I discovered Free Space Deftag so used it. Then my troubles began. The fragments and fragmented space grew dramatically, up to 50% fragmentation and 50 GB fragmented. The amount of the HD used increasd by 20-30GB. I resolved it by running a Free Space Defrag (framents allowed). Finally it is back to normal after a lot of work and time. I did a restore of systems files retaining current data which did not help or change things at all except losing some updates and programs that I installed. I have Win 7 and all of the setting of DF were in the default state. I have the free version. This is definitely a bug or you could say it could be a problem with my computer. Right now I plan to run DF but NEVER defrag free space! Question, if I uncheck the disable Windows defragger does that enable it?