MMC Message....

William B. Lurie

I asked about this a while ago, and I don't recall
getting a good explanation, and meanwhile it went
away so I dropped the matter. Now today it appeared
again (as of course we knew it would)......and this
is it:

http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/MMCmsg.jpg

I get this message when I try to do a DEFRAG on that drive.
It seems to be telling me that I don't have the right
access, or enough room, or something. But I have 5 GB
of unused space on that drive, and I'm the sole owner
and user of this whole machine.

Please advise, and thank you.

Jim

"William B. Lurie" <> wrote in message
news:.gbl...
>I asked about this a while ago, and I don't recall
> getting a good explanation, and meanwhile it went
> away so I dropped the matter. Now today it appeared
> again (as of course we knew it would)......and this
> is it:
>
> http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/MMCmsg.jpg
> I get this message when I try to do a DEFRAG on that drive.
> It seems to be telling me that I don't have the right
> access, or enough room, or something. But I have 5 GB
> of unused space on that drive, and I'm the sole owner
> and user of this whole machine.
>
> Please advise, and thank you.
The message says nothing about not having enough room. 5 GB may or may not
be enough; defrag works much better with around 15% free space (although
that is not a hard and fast rule).
Instead, it says that the file might be missing (hard to believe) or that
you may not have sufficient permissions.
So, what are the permissions on the file?

Jim

William B. Lurie

Jim wrote:
> "William B. Lurie" <> wrote in message
> news:.gbl...
>> I asked about this a while ago, and I don't recall
>> getting a good explanation, and meanwhile it went
>> away so I dropped the matter. Now today it appeared
>> again (as of course we knew it would)......and this
>> is it:
>>
>> http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/MMCmsg.jpg
>> I get this message when I try to do a DEFRAG on that drive.
>> It seems to be telling me that I don't have the right
>> access, or enough room, or something. But I have 5 GB
>> of unused space on that drive, and I'm the sole owner
>> and user of this whole machine.
>>
>> Please advise, and thank you.
> The message says nothing about not having enough room. 5 GB may or may not
> be enough; defrag works much better with around 15% free space (although
> that is not a hard and fast rule).
> Instead, it says that the file might be missing (hard to believe) or that
> you may not have sufficient permissions.
> So, what are the permissions on the file?
>
> Jim
>
>
Jim, I've used defrag right there for 18 months
with whatever "permissions" came with the system.
One would think that the defaults would be still
the same....certainly positive for the one and
only user and owner. And I have well over 25% free
space.
Bill

William B. Lurie

Jim wrote:
> "William B. Lurie" <> wrote in message
> news:.gbl...
>> I asked about this a while ago, and I don't recall
>> getting a good explanation, and meanwhile it went
>> away so I dropped the matter. Now today it appeared
>> again (as of course we knew it would)......and this
>> is it:
>>
>> http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/MMCmsg.jpg
>> I get this message when I try to do a DEFRAG on that drive.
>> It seems to be telling me that I don't have the right
>> access, or enough room, or something. But I have 5 GB
>> of unused space on that drive, and I'm the sole owner
>> and user of this whole machine.
>>
>> Please advise, and thank you.
> The message says nothing about not having enough room. 5 GB may or may not
> be enough; defrag works much better with around 15% free space (although
> that is not a hard and fast rule).
> Instead, it says that the file might be missing (hard to believe) or that
> you may not have sufficient permissions.
> So, what are the permissions on the file?
>
> Jim
>
>
Specifically, Jim, the partition is 22G, with 16G used
and 6 G unused.....that's 27% free space.....