"Disk defragment" is not defragmenting

[v]

I have been using Adobe Photoshop elements 3.0 recently editing photos. I
think this is where my problem began. I think it saves each photo, or
portion of photo's somewhere. After using this program previously, I now
have only 1.2 GB of free space, when I should have approx. 4-5GB of space
left. Also, when I try to defragment my "C" drive, it indicates that most of
the drive is red, or "fragmented". When I run the program, it does not clean
the drive. It seems to go through the process, but does not really defrag
any files.

I believe Photoshop has files of these edited photos somewhere but I can't
find them. I have searched many different options on the "C" drive to no
avail.

Please help.

Vince

 

[mike000777]

I have been using Adobe Photoshop elements 3.0 recently editing photos. I
think this is where my problem began. I think it saves each photo, or
portion of photo's somewhere. After using this program previously, I now
have only 1.2 GB of free space, when I should have approx. 4-5GB of space
left. Also, when I try to defragment my "C" drive, it indicates that most of
the drive is red, or "fragmented". When I run the program, it does not clean
the drive. It seems to go through the process, but does not really defrag
any files.

I believe Photoshop has files of these edited photos somewhere but I can't
find them. I have searched many different options on the "C" drive to no
avail.

Please help.

Vince

I have this problem too. I boot up to Win98SE and it defrags lovely.
When I reboot to Win2k after defragging with Win98, it looks perfect.
People will say boot in safe mode, etc but nothing I've tried has
gotten it to work like it should.

 

[hiram buttfuck]

I use the Win ME defrag. It is much quicker and has more options than the
W2K defrag. I've been doing it that way for years.

P.S.: Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) do not need defragging. For that and
many other reasons, I use Ubuntu more and more. This is a commercial.