hartvix
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Manually refreshing volume list
I totally agree about keeping the amount of processes running constantly to a minimum, so an automatic detection isn't really necessary. But I'd still like to have a manual "Refresh/rescan volumes" somewhere in the GUI.
I've been using SmartDefrag for a while now, and I mostly like the program, which seems to be doing a good job without wasting a lot of resources.
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Smart Defrag doesn't detect when an external disk is connected
Maybe I'm missing some trivial point here, but it seems SmartDefrag won't update the list of volumes/partitions when an external disk is connected. By default, SmartDefrag will start with Windows, and run in the background, so it will usually already be running when I connect the disk(s). To force SmartDefrag to notice the "new" disk, I have to go to the system box, right click SmartDefrag and choose Exit, then restart the program from the start menu. This isn't hard to do, but a bit more cumbersome than it should be.
Ideally, SD should automatically detect that a new disk is being connected. But a simple button/menu option to refresh the volume list would do just fine. This should be pretty easy to fix, shouldn't it?
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A little embarrassed now... it actually works!
I'm a little embarrassed now :oops: ...
SmartDefrag DOES update the volume list when I connect an external HDD. It turns out the whole "problem" was due to a combination of Windows taking a looong time to display the volumes on this particular disk (not only in SmartDefrag, but in Windows Explorer as well), and me being a little short on patience. After a bit of waiting, I concluded that it wouldn't update, so I shut down SmartDefrag and restarted it. The extra time spent on that was of course enough for the system to recognize the volumes, while I thought the restart had done the trick. (Same procedure several times).
Anyway, thanks for your replies, and sorry for wasting your time!
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