At 5/17/2010 11:49 AM, Andrew Webber wrote:
>I ran MyDefrag (JKDefrag) on "Optimize Monthly" for about 18 hours and
>it got to about 80% of Zone 6 before we had to use the machine. The
>docs say it's safe to stop it at any time, and we did.
...
>Last night I started it up in Monthly again and this morning it was at
>40% of Zone 4. It's discouraging to think a couple of hours' work
>would have triggered such extensive re-optimizing, especially since we
>had to use it for a couple of hours this morning.

Read documentation carefully.
a) MyDefrag's "Monthly" optimization should not be used repeatedly like this, 
because it literally reorders every file on your drive.  So, that's right, even 
one change could result in a need to redo the whole drive.
b) You don't have to stop the defrag, you can pause it.
c) You don't even have to pause it...you can keep using the computer while the 
defrag is running.
and d) Make sure to disable hibernation and thus delete the hibernation file 
before doing any defragmenting, or else there's no point...because your 
existing hibernation file will NOT be defragmented.

- TK 

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