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    Posted: 27 April 2007 at 3:21am
Originally posted by cosmotopper

Is there a way to get contig to not only make the files contiguous, but move them down to the first available open space,

Telling from the information given on the Contig Webpage the answer seems to be: sorry, no.

I assume "contig" was created as small utility to be used to defragment files quickly, but not in order to substitute large (commercial) packages which may be able to optimize free disk space as well.

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I was hoping contig would solve the big gap problem, but apparently not. Yes, I would like to defrag my filesystem, but my definition of defrag means compact & defrag. Is there a way to get contig to not only make the files contiguous, but move them down to the first available open space, so you don't end up with tiny slivers of file content scattered over the filesystem?
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Just thought I would reply here.  I was also getting the "Access is Denied" error when I was running contig.exe on a file on one of our servers.  I took  namrehto's advice and  ran Process Monitor while I ran contig.  The detail of one of the process events said "Control: FSCTL_IS_VOLUME_MOUNTED".   That made me wonder if contig did  not allow defragging a file over a mapped drive letter.   The command line  I had been using was something like:

contig R:\Access\schedule.mdb

R:\ is mapped to the E:\Apps folder on this server.  When I tried it like the following it worked flawlessly:

contig E:\Apps\Access\schedule.mdb

Hope this helps somebody else out there.


Edited by greg.bakker - 18 April 2007 at 10:54am
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As a Scheduled Task could it have been running in the system account and hit the EULA prompt issue?
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Thanks, you pointed me in the right direction. The problem I was having this morning was that I was running it on my user acct, not my admin acct. I reran the (admin) batch job and it ran fine. Still don't know why it didn't run correctly last night.
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By the sounds of things Contig is running okay but is hitting an access rights problem on the file(s) you are asking it to defrag. If the cause is not obvious, try running Process Monitor and watching what Contig is attempting to do. 
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Okay, I tried Contig and it worked great for a few days. I'm running it at night on  a 2k box in a scheduled batch job. Last night it errored out. When I run contig this morning, I get the EULA box (which I have already answered when I ran it the first time interactively). I wasn't sure whether to accept or reject the EULA so I ^C'd from the command line.
Now when I run contig, it just says "Access is denied". I found the EulaAccepted key in the registry, and changing the value or deleting the key allows the EULA box to come up, but now, even if I answer "Accept", contig still says "Access is denied". I also tried copying a new copy of the exe.

How do I get past the denial setting?
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