First - This may have already been discussed but I tried "Find" and "search" on forums home page and found no search ability.
Can you really put a defragmenter on a portable device?
A badly fragmented drive may take hours to defrag and you might want to remove the portable drive and use it elsewhwere before defrag is finished.
Does the portable app copy the defrag program to a temp directory on the drive to be defragmented before beginning defrag? I've looked at the various doc pages and no indication of this.
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We have four apps that have defrag functionality as far as I know, and all four are completely portable by our standards and work fine from a USB drive.
Our apps are not copied to a temp location for running, they are run directly from the USB drive. We don't support pulling the drive while any of our apps are running - some rare apps may continue to work if the app is small and has been fully loaded into memory, but most won't, and you will more than likely lose settings/personal data and leave files behind on the host PC if you do pull the drive on a running app.