kallanka Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Hello, im having some trouble with files being severly fragmented after downloading.Please bare with me, tried to search yeasterday but had trouble understanding all the technical terms so found no solution.Utorrent has its own 97gb partition to work against, yeasterday i defragged the harddrive completly.Today i downloaded 3x350mb files and they are split up in 1725, 1745 and 1859 fragments.What can i do to reduce fragmentation?Is it safe to defrag the partition while utorrent write's to it?Is it safe to defrag the partition while utorrent only reads from it?Windows xp - sp2Filesystem: Ntfs with compression enabled.Utorrent 1.7.7 build 8179Perfectdisk 2008 build64Internet connection 24/1 soon to be 10/10Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 We don't support 1.7.7. Upgrade to 1.8 or 1.8.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallanka Posted October 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Same problem with 1.8http://i36.tinypic.com/2w5nfhi.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Not an expert but maybe pre memory allocation in uT allows to have continuous memory block for files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallanka Posted October 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Pre-allocate all files is enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Go to 1.8.1 RC1 or disable sparse files in 1.8, 1.8 has a bug regarding pre-allocation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 1.8.1 is stable now. No more RC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallanka Posted October 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Updating to 1.8.1 is not an option as it doesnt work with all trackers im using.Tried disable sparse files, no change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Updating to 1.8.1 is not an option as it doesnt work with all trackers im using.Nothing we can do about that.Edit: Was going to edit in more information (as this post was worthless), but others already got to it before I. Apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallanka Posted October 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 So the problem lies with windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Disabling sparse files only applies to NEWLY downloaded files. All your old files will still be sparse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallanka Posted October 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Disabled sparse, defragmented the harddrive then started utorrent and downloaded a couple of new torrents which got fragmented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 To "un-sparse" existing data you must copy the data, and delete the old copy. The new copy is unsparse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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