Is it possible to defrag just one particular file

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and consolidate it instead of doing the whole drive, my outlok pst is in
36000 pieces and I was wondering if it is posssibel to just redo that one
instead of taking days and days
 
Sure. Make a new partion that has nothing on it. Put that file in there and defrag it. Now it's defragged. If you want to put it back where it was, defrag where it was so that you have ample Free space for the file and copy it back.
 
and consolidate it instead of doing the whole drive, my outlok pst is in
36000 pieces and I was wondering if it is posssibel to just redo that one
instead of taking days and days
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The problem is that you need a large enough contiguous free area to contain
the file. If you have that, try copying it, and then deleting the original.
You should at least greatly reduce the fragmentation.
 
bob said:
and consolidate it instead of doing the whole drive, my outlok pst
is in 36000 pieces and I was wondering if it is posssibel to just
redo that one instead of taking days and days
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you could try contig.exe from www.sysinternals.com
which defrags single files
 
True. This was actually the way pagefile.sys can be defragged. But in that case you don't do anything other than move the pagefile.sys to a different partion; then defrag the C drive; then move it back.
 
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