Defraging my computer

[303lovesit]

Hi all!

I currently have 84 gig used up on my hard drive and is a 120 gig one basicly I havnt defraged it atall really for nearly a year do you think it will fck anything up if i do a defrag as I can remember last year doing it and it fuck all my tracks up coz it couldnt find the rite audio files ect!

Good idea, bad idea???

You think it will fuck my tracks up and is there a way round it so it dosnt!

Niceone!!

[hatembr]

defraging requires some free space, the required disk space depends on the used space you have... i don't know how to calculate this exactly; but it shouldn't fuck anything on your hard drive as far as u have enough space. May be last year your drive was full, and the os didn't find where to write swap files....

[Juho L]

The defragmenting requires 10% free space of the selected drive.

[303lovesit]

What i mean is the last time i defraged my comp it repositioned alot of the audio files that i recorded from my hardware
so when i loaded my tracks up it said that it coudnt find the audio files
and i lost the files thats i recorded because they have been moved..

8O

[hatembr]

wierd! what did u use to defrag it ?

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by 303lovesit

What i mean is the last time i defraged my comp it repositioned alot of the audio files that i recorded from my hardware
so when i loaded my tracks up it said that it coudnt find the audio files
and i lost the files thats i recorded because they have been moved..

Now you've done something weird. Defragmenter only physically rearranges the files on the hard disk.

[hatembr]

may be you've shut down your computer while it was defraging ?

[303lovesit]

Nah mate,

I dont think i would be that stupid 8O

After I defragmented the drive various audio parts i recorded could not be found when i loaded the track up.

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by 303lovesit

After I defragmented the drive various audio parts i recorded could not be found when i loaded the track up.

That's odd. Never done that on me.

[picato]

Originally Posted by 303lovesit

After I defragmented the drive various audio parts i recorded could not be found when i loaded the track up.

It's very rare, but sometimes my Cubase doesn't really find some of the audiofiles for certain songs. But there's no problem to find them again, since Cubase puts up a dialog box asking: Do you want to search for missing audioparts? And then it usually find them again. Another way to "update" them is by clicking on the wave icon in the audio pool, whitch sometimes help.
Are you sure that the files really was completely removed from your drive, or are they just not only found?