hosquare Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 hii did a forum search n read topics relating to the title but i just wanna make absolutely sure...is it ok to defragment the hard drive when utorrent is off but the downloads are incomplete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Yes, it should be safe as long as your defragmenter doesn't screw the files up while moving them around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hosquare Posted September 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 thx now to hope windows' default defragmenter doesnt do that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Having to manually defragment is a chore. I have Diskeeper defragment nightly at 5:30AM monday mornings through friday mornings. 10:30AM on saturday and sunday mornings because I might still be awake then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Windows defragmenter is slow, but it should be safe. IINM, anything that uses the NT defagmenting API to do the defragmenting should be safe. If you want fast, simple and free, maybe you should try JkDefrag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hosquare Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 it doesnt have to be quick...just not mess up my files. but thanks 4 the suggestion. ill try it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeloeven Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 sorrey for necro posting but i think if you want to be really safe you should enable pre alocate files in utorrent. this will allocate the space needed for the file ahead of time create a begining and endpoint to the file right off the bat and than overwrite the random data in the middle as it goes rather than making a file that grows slowly as it is works. i find this little known feature will prevent utorrent from fragmenting at all. also when defragmenting, these incomplete files will still appear as their intended size and the defragmenter should move the entire thing acordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zamarac32 Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 I don't usually use Pre-allocate Files feature in uTorrent, but did notice that Win7 Explorer shows the final torrent file size (a movie 1.5Gb file) as soon as the download starts. Also, I run a defragmenter after downloading torrents to check the files continuity, and it shows all large torrent files (1.5 - 3 Gb each) are NOT fragmented at all. How it can happen? Is pre-allocation hard coded now, no matter whether selected or not in uTorrent Prefs? Or NTFS has anything to do with that? I mean, torrent files are expected being heavily fragmented by the nature of torrent downloads, especially when deselecting "Pre-allocate" - am I wrong? Keeping in mind, pieces are written to disk so often.Relevant issue would be, if one needs to defrag torrent files (movie .avi files) before burning a folder with such files onto a DVD? I didn't, but noticed a horizontal line appears on TV screen quite often, when playing a movie from DVD. It divides the screen 1/3 to 2/3. Is it related to file fragmentation, or to incorrect decoding of DivX5 by my DVD Player?I also wonder, if burning soft like ImageBurn actually defrags the file in memory or reads it from hard drive such a way that it is burned defragmented regardless of original on HD being fragmented? Can it be? Any links explaining these topics would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Relevant issue would be, if one needs to defrag torrent files (movie .avi files) before burning a folder with such files onto a DVD? I didn't, but noticed a horizontal line appears on TV screen quite often, when playing a movie from DVD. It divides the screen 1/3 to 2/3. Is it related to file fragmentation, or to incorrect decoding of DivX5 by my DVD Player?Doesn't matter what it is, it's beyond the scope of these forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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