[jen147]

Hello,

Been trying to defrag and keep getting the same report. I've tried to track these 3 files down and can't find zip! The best I could do was get rid of RecordNow's tutorial movies which was about 3 GB, but it didn't make any difference with those 3 files.

What are they?

How do I find them?

And how do I get that space back?

Thanks for any info!




Volume PRESARIO (C:)
Volume size = 69.26 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 29.67 GB
Free space = 39.59 GB
Percent free space = 57 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 13 %
File fragmentation = 26 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 90,519
Average file size = 458 KB
Total fragmented files = 4
Total excess fragments = 9,097
Average fragments per file = 1.10

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 672 MB
Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 8,152
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 114 MB
MFT record count = 99,733
Percent MFT in use = 85 %
Total MFT fragments = 3

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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
1,546 2.00 GB \Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\Application Data\Sonic\RecordNow!\RN!187.tmp (1).gi

3,261 2.00 GB \Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\Application Data\Sonic\RecordNow!\RN!4B.tmp (1).gi

3,031 2.00 GB \Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\Application Data\Sonic\RecordNow!\RN!4B.tmp (2).gi

[pip22]

You say you can't find them but the path to those three files is shown clear enough at the bottom of your post (ignore the bracketted numbers and everything else after it at the end of each path line).

You may have to temporarily close explorer.exe and use a command-line window to delete them if they won't delete with explorer.exe running.

[jen147]

Thanks pip22 for the reply,

I've tried everything I know to find them. I've done serches. Search the entire file name, and it comes up nothing. I've went into My Computer and tried to follow the file path... I get as far as Compaq_Owner, inside there is no Application Data.

I've went into Program Files looked through Sonic, nothing in there with the name RN!187.tmp or even anything with 2 or more GB.

Am I just not getting it, what am I doing wrong?

[jen147]

Just forgot to say that when I do a search it says:

Application Data\Sonic\RecordNow!\RN!187.tmp is not a valid folder

[jen147]

Update:

changed search preferences to look in hidden files and folders and they all came up, why would they have been in there? Is it safe to delete them?