Re[2]: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-29 Thread Marco Qualizza
At 8:54:51 PM on Thursday, September 28, 2000, your quill inscribed unto the ether: the problem is that most of the more 'intelligent' defrag programs try not only to defrag but organise storage based on some usage criteria. snip illuminating post Actually, I hadn't even thought of the

Re[3]: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-29 Thread Mark R Harding
Marco, Regarding your message dated: 29 September 2000... MQ I don't think that OODefrag actually uses one, or if it does it's MQ not configurable, unlike, say, the one used by Norton's Speeddisk. If you investigate the various OO defrag options, you can choose to defrag the system by

Re: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-29 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Marco, On 29 September 2000 at 07:49:43 GMT -0400 (which was 12:49 where I live) Marco Qualizza wrote and made these points on the subject of "NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)": MQ snip illuminating post MQ Actually, I h

Re: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-28 Thread tracer
Hello Marco Qualizza, On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:24:45 -0400 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, September 28, 2000, 2:24:45 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Marco Qualizza wrote: How do you defrag NTFS disks? Do you use DiskKeeper? perfect disk. And obviously MS claim is untrue(g). How well

Re: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-27 Thread tracer
Hello Karin Spaink, On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:45:09 +0200 GMT your local time, which was Monday, September 25, 2000, 1:45:09 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Karin Spaink wrote: On 24-09-2000 at 20:33, Deryk Lister kindly wrote: g Nevertheless, I defrag my disk every month or so. The way output

Re[2]: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-27 Thread Marco Qualizza
How do you defrag NTFS disks? Do you use DiskKeeper? perfect disk. And obviously MS claim is untrue(g). How well do DiskKeeper and Perfect Disk work? If you've tried OODefrag (which is what I'm using), how do they work in comparison? (OODefrag can be found at: http://www.oosoft.de/

Re: Slow changing folders

2000-09-25 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:52:21 +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: DL Using NTFS here, but it seems that Microsoft's old claims of it being DL non-fraggable are untrue :) TF I never used NT, so I would have to read up on NTFS. "Non-fraggable"? TF Never

Re: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-25 Thread Mark Aston
Hi Mark, Sunday, September 24, 2000, 8:11:08 PM, you wrote: MRH As a point of interest... I believe that Win2K installs on an NTFS MRH cluster size of 4K by default so this should help prevent the same MRH type of problem occurring quite so readily - hooray for all users of MRH Win2K! I think

Slow changing folders

2000-09-24 Thread Deryk Lister
I'm sure this was mentioned before, but can't find where. My inbox has only 233 messages in it, but when I switch to it from a different folder it can sit chugging at the disk for 10-15 seconds before actually showing the contents! Perhaps it's fragmented or something, is there a command to

Re: Slow changing folders

2000-09-24 Thread Deryk Lister
My inbox has only 233 messages in it, but when I switch to it from a different folder it can sit chugging at the disk for 10-15 seconds before actually showing the contents! Perhaps it's fragmented or something, is there a command to 'defrag' the database? I don't fancy devoting the day to

Re[2]: Slow changing folders

2000-09-24 Thread Deryk Lister
DL Now opens in half a second, and saved 98 megs! g Nevertheless, I defrag my disk every month or so. The way output onto disk works, it makes good sense. ;-) Using NTFS here, but it seems that Microsoft's old claims of it being non-fraggable are untrue :) -- Deryk Lister || ICQ 25869912

NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-24 Thread Karin Spaink
On 24-09-2000 at 20:33, Deryk Lister kindly wrote: g Nevertheless, I defrag my disk every month or so. The way output onto disk works, it makes good sense. ;-) Using NTFS here, but it seems that Microsoft's old claims of it being non-fraggable are untrue :) How do you defrag NTFS disks? Do

Re: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-24 Thread Mark R Harding
Karin, Regarding your message dated: 24 September 2000... Using NTFS here, but it seems that Microsoft's old claims of it being non-fraggable are untrue :) No - NTFS as implemented in Windows NT does fragment because (as far as I understand it) it uses quite a large default cluster size on

Re: NTFS defragging (was: Slow changing folders)

2000-09-24 Thread Deryk Lister
Hi Karin, On Sunday 24/09/2000 at 19:45, you wrote: Using NTFS here, but it seems that Microsoft's old claims of it being non-fraggable are untrue :) How do you defrag NTFS disks? Do you use DiskKeeper? I'm running Win2000, which finally has Defrag built in :) It's actually just a version

Re: Slow changing folders

2000-09-24 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Deryk, On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:33:08 +0100GMT (25/09/2000, 02:33 +0800GMT), Deryk Lister wrote: g Nevertheless, I defrag my disk every month or so. The way output onto disk works, it makes good sense. ;-) DL Using NTFS here, but it seems that Microsoft's old claims of it being DL