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Old July 30th, 2004, 01:39 PM
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Defraging

I don't know if MTUSUPPORT formats the hard drives we send out with C and D partitions or not. I expect D is also there.

Windows stores "temp" files all day long on the partition it is installed in... for stuff you're never aware of. These take up little bits and pieces of storage on the HDD. Then, when you import a song, Windows puts it in the largest contiguous space it can find... if one exists. If not, the file gets stored a piece here, a piece there, a chunk over yonder. This is how a file gets fragmented.

As Gary points out, the defrag reorganizes the disc volume and makes everything contiguous again. When a defragged .kma file is accessed, the HDD head doesn't have to move to all the different places where pieces and chunks are stored. They are all in one clean, continuously readable area without any major head movements.

Where files end up after defrag will ALWAYS be in the same folder. Where that folder is on the disc volume may change... and its not something you need to be concerned about, or that you can control. Defragging is something MTU did on our MTU-130 computers we use to sell back in the early '80s. It is a fact of life with computers. Defragging monthly is an EXCELLENT idea!
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Old August 3rd, 2004, 12:40 AM
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Smile Hoster2.213

I downloaded the new version 2.213 Sunday and working with it I really like the new features, and it seams to be working fine. I do have one question about the search feature, When you put in an artist last name only it will bring up all of the songs on the shuttle that I have of an artist with the last name, but when I put in the last name and then the first name It will only bring up the last few songs added the the database, "Example" jackson will bring up all songs with the last name of jackson. I then put in jackson alan and it will only bring in the last 3 or 4 songs imported into Hoster. The 2.212 version would not bring up an artist for me at all if I put in the last and first name, is there some thing I missed or is this how the search feature works, when putting in a song title it would not bring up the song, if I used one word in the title it would bring up all of the songs with that word in the title, "example" live like you were dying would not come up, put in live like and all the songs on the drive with live like would come up. I really like the search feature and I caught on to using it this way quickly, I was just wondering if this was the way it was designed to work, I will say keep up the good work on the Hoster Program, I've used it 4 months and already could not see going back to handling disc again unless I absolutely had to. Randall
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