Post #2886454

2026-05-22 01:55 UTC

Lol, so apparently if something on your computer is taking too long or appears stuck, the sollution is to quit looking at it. As soon as you do, it will magically fly and be done in a few seconds/minutes. This just happened to me when defragging one of my huge spinning drives. I was looking at it for a few minutes and it was stuck at pass 2 0 percent. 10 seconds later it was at pass 4, yes 4, and a few seconds after that it was done.

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@musicalman@dragonscave.space 2026-05-22 02:02

For context on why I did the defrag in the first place. I've been noticing that Gold Wave, which stores its temp files on that drive, starts becoming really sluggish if I haven't restarted it or my PC in a while. Operations such as copying, deleting etc. that would require a temp file to be written makes it freeze for a moment, and audio playback will stutter and glitch during that time, so my theory is it's taking a while ot write the temp file. The only resolution I can think of is to try defragging the drive, since that's not something I habitually do. Especially since Windows has always said it's 0 percent fragmented. Still decided to try it anyway. Not expecting much but yeah we'll see.

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@tinygirl@mstdn.social 2026-05-22 04:16

@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space @musicalman@dragonscave.space watched pot never boils.

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