A contiguous file in a computer is one that is placed on a storage drive in such a way that it is in sequential portions of the drive. This is generally regarded as advantageous because it results in better performance by decreasing the amount of time it takes the computer to read the data (compared to when a single file is spread over a larger portion of the drive and not located in contiguous sectors).
The performance gains experienced from contiguous files is the best reason to defragment a drive.
To organize the way that files are stored on a computer disk, so that all the information belonging to a file, is stored on a single contiguous area on the disk.
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Defrag is the command to move all clusters of a file to contiguous locations. If you don't want to use the command line version, you could go to My Computer or Computer, right click on the drive you want to defragment, go to properties, and choose the option to defragment from there. Or you can go get something like Defragler or another 3rd party defragmentation program.
There are two parts to this. One, the information in the File Allocation Table, as the file might be spread over different sectors, not all contiguous if your filesystem is fragmented. Two, this would be the specific sectors at which the data resides that make up the contents of the file. Cheers, Chay
They take all of the fragmented pieces of files on your hard drive and consolidate them back into contiguous files. This can speed up performance since your computer doesn't have to search for the file fragments.
you can get your file easilyyou dont need to search it.just go to particular folder an get your files.
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Defragmentation. This is when your hard drive restores each file to one contiguous location to reduce data access time and allows storage to be used more efficiently.Hope this helps.
Yes, it can be. In computer programming, the term delimited refers to a file in which individual data values have embedded delimiters. The delimiters can be quotation marks, commas and tabs. Deliminters are used to separate words or phrases in a string of contiguous character data to define the beginning or end. Delimited text files are also called delimiter-separated values file (CSV or DSM).
A library file on a computer is the user's personal file. It could be a series of pictures downloaded to the computer, documents scanned into the computer, or a music file.
a grandfather file is the oldest file on the computer...
The file extension is the two, three, or more letter code that is after the period in a computer file name. It is used to "tell" the computer what type of file it is and what program on your computer will "open" or "run" it.