Every time you run a volume analysis, defragmentation or optimization, UltraDefrag produces the file fragmentation report with a full list of fragmented files located on the volume.
UltraDefrag saves file fragmentation reports in the following two formats: LuaReport and Plain Text. The first is used to generate HTML reports from. The second format is used to ensure that the report will be accessible even on machines without any web browser installed.
UltraDefrag saves all reports to the root directories of the processed volumes. To open LuaReport click the fraglist.luar file in Explorer or simply click the Report button in the UltraDefrag GUI after a disk defragmentation/analysis job has completed. To open the Plain Text report click the fraglist.txt file in Explorer.
To distinguish between old and new reports, the date and time is included in the header of the report.
When you are opening the LuaReport a single HTML page is generated and opened in your default web browser. It contains the list of fragmented files. The meaning of the columns are described below.
By default, all files are sorted by the number of fragments in descending order. To change the sorting click the column heading by which to sort the list. Note that it is a slow process (~350 lines/sec on 1.8GHz CPU). Sorting implemented in JavaScript is slow, but very reliable.
All files excluded from the defragmentation by filters are excluded from reports too. Trash should not get our attention.
All options related to file fragmentation reports are contained in the udreportopts.lua file inside the /options sub-folder of the program's directory.
To open this file for editing click its icon in Explorer or simply select Settings => Reports from the UltraDefrag GUI menu.
The udreportopts.lua file contains parameter-value pairs and comments (they are starting with double dashes). However this file is a real program written in the Lua programming language.
The following configuration is used by default:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ultra Defragmenter report options ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- All these options were primarily designed to achieve better -- compatibility with old web browsers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Set enable_sorting to zero if your web browser is too old -- and you have error messages about invalid javascript code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- enable_sorting = 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Set this parameter to 1 if you prefer to look at filenames split -- into few short lines. If you prefer to use full-screen mode of your -- web browser then set this parameter to zero. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- split_long_names = 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Set here maximum number of characters per line in filename cells. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- max_chars_per_line = 50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- A web page style can be set through udreport.css style sheet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have problems editing configuration files, use the Tools > Folder options > File types menu in Explorer to associate the lua extension with your preferred text editor.
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