No defrag on files that admin hasn't permissions to

[Guest AndyMHancock@gmail.com]

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional, SP4, and almost always use a

power user account. I mostly operate within a Unix environment

provided by Cygwin. In accordance with a common Unix practice, all my

power user files are set to be accessible by only the user. However,

this prevents those files from being defragged. After much searching

and experimentation, I found in JkDefrag's documentation that the

account under which defragging is run should have "full control" over

files being defragged.

 

I've tried the Win2K's built-in defragger, JkDefrag, and Ultra

Defragmenter (UD). For JkDefrag and UD, I also tried boot-time

defragging. UD requires specification of a comma-separated list of

file patterns, to which I added an asterisk (without quotes). None of

these help.

 

I confirmed that the fragmented files could be defragged after using

the Unix Bash command line interpeter in Cygwin to open up file access

to everyone ("go+rwx" in Unix lingo). Other people, however, haven't

needed to do this, including people who have finangled file access

permissions even more un-Windows-ily than I have. So I'm not sure

what could be the cause of the problem.

 

1. What other likely causes could there be?

 

2. Is there a defragger that is known to circumvent these file access

permissions problems? Freeware is preferrable, since this is an

ancient laptop for which investment is questionable. It might be

better to simply run it into the ground (or until my patience is

exhausted), then get a new laptop with twice the drive capacity I

need so that I can ghost the drive between two partitions instead

of this troublesome and nonideal defragging. On the current

laptop, ghosting might be problematic because it only has USB1

(haven't researched yet whether the CD burner is on IDE).

 

3. Failing that, is there a way to hierarchically traverse the C-drive

and set file permissions such that "full control" is given to

*only* admin?

 

Thanks!

[Guest AndyHancock]

Solved: No defrag on files that admin hasn't permissions to

 

Solved: No defrag on files that admin hasn't permissions to

 

It turns out that Diskeeper managed to defrag the many user files that

the aforementioned free applications could not.

 

On Apr 8, 3:30 pm, AndyMHanc...@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm running Windows 2000 Professional, SP4, and almost always use a

> power user account. I mostly operate within a Unix environment

> provided by Cygwin. In accordance with a common Unix practice, all my

> power user files are set to be accessible by only the user. However,

> this prevents those files from being defragged. After much searching

> and experimentation, I found in JkDefrag's documentation that the

> account under which defragging is run should have "full control" over

> files being defragged.

>

> I've tried the Win2K's built-in defragger, JkDefrag, and Ultra

> Defragmenter (UD). For JkDefrag and UD, I also tried boot-time

> defragging. UD requires specification of a comma-separated list of

> file patterns, to which I added an asterisk (without quotes). None of

> these help.

>

> I confirmed that the fragmented files could be defragged after using

> the Unix Bash command line interpeter in Cygwin to open up file access

> to everyone ("go+rwx" in Unix lingo). Other people, however, haven't

> needed to do this, including people who have finangled file access

> permissions even more un-Windows-ily than I have. So I'm not sure

> what could be the cause of the problem.

>

> 1. What other likely causes could there be?

>

> 2. Is there a defragger that is known to circumvent these file access

> permissions problems? Freeware is preferrable, since this is an

> ancient laptop for which investment is questionable. It might be

> better to simply run it into the ground (or until my patience is

> exhausted), then get a new laptop with twice the drive capacity I

> need so that I can ghost the drive between two partitions instead

> of this troublesome and nonideal defragging. On the current

> laptop, ghosting might be problematic because it only has USB1

> (haven't researched yet whether the CD burner is on IDE).

>

> 3. Failing that, is there a way to hierarchically traverse the C-drive

> and set file permissions such that "full control" is given to

> *only* admin?

>

> Thanks!