Re: defragging freespace...
.
Seriously... I do have one program (legacy)
that I use fairly regularly, still, despite it being orphaned in 2002.
a program which is quite finicky in that regard.
As I understand it, it needs a certain amount of room for swap space,
and cannot figure out how to use anything but contiguous space...
so... if it can't find a chunk the right size or larger,
if "bad enough" it simply fails to load; or in the middle of use you get this error message.
Make sure that the scratch disk for <program name> has enough free contiguous space. <program name> requires free contiguous hard disk space equivalent to three to five times the size of the file you edit.
Why not dump this clump of code, as did the publisher?
- I am a tightwad with my cash... (on some things, like this)
- I don't need a learning curve on another productivity package.
- It has been a while since the annoyance showed up.
- I am trying to learn another package... but it is slow going because it is TOO able.
The "quick and dirty" of the one I have is just fine.
It does everything I need, thank you very much.
.
Don't you have any xp programs you still use? No? Maybe not.
Still I suspect there are more than just mine that like
contiguous free space.
.
I think it also can become an issue if you wish to add a partition later,
(like with gparted, for the creation of a dual boot / linux & windows system.)
.
Old defragging programs used to have a graphical interface
that allowed you to watch as sector contents were moved
and then as files were rewritten to make them contiguous.
In the process, you could see how some files got left "out there"
right in the middle of what otherwise could have been contiguous free space.
As I recall, some programs did allow you specifically to consolidate your free space.
BUT... like I said... its been a while since the need raised its head for me.
Doing some quick googling, I see some utilities still do this kind of work...
