Strange behaviour with button to defrag file with contig

[liamZ]

Hi, I have TC v9.21a x64, and I have created a button to defrag a file with sysinternals tool contig.exe.
The button runs the command "cmd /k contig.exe -v %P%N"
And when a run the command I get this:

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Found a free disk block at 2288692 of length 976683 for entire file.
Moving 280592 clusters at file offset cluster 0 to disk cluster 2288692
Move cluster status: STATUS_ALREADY_COMMITTED

Moving 280592 clusters at file offset cluster 0 to disk cluster 2288692
Move cluster status: STATUS_ALREADY_COMMITTED

File size: 1149304832 bytes
Fragments before: 4
Fragments after : 4

but the strange thing is when I open cmd.exe and run manually "contig.exe -v file"
everything works fine:

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Found a free disk block at 2288692 of length 976683 for entire file.
Moving 280592 clusters at file offset cluster 0 to disk cluster 2288692
File size: 1149304832 bytes
Fragments before: 4
Fragments after : 1

So, what's going on?, anybody can reproduce this? Or it's just my computer.

[liamZ]

OK, I just found that contig64.exe is broken. The problem was that when I was running manually contig.exe I was running 32 bit version, and the one in my button was 64 bit version. So why this 2 year old program is still not fixed?

[Horst.Epp]

OK, I just found that contig64.exe is broken. The problem was that when I was running manually contig.exe I was running 32 bit version, and the one in my button was 64 bit version. So why this 2 year old program is still not fixed?

And why do you ask this in the TC Forum ?
Btw there is no real need for the x64 Version of this tool.

[liamZ]

You don't know why?
Well, If I'm gonna find that kind of answers like you give maybe next time I wont.

[Horst.Epp]

You don't know why?
Well, If I'm gonna find that kind of answers like you give maybe next time I wont.

You already found the culprint of your Problem, which is Not TC.
So what helpfull answer do you expect for the question why the program is not updated?

[petermad]

2liamZ

"cmd /k contig.exe -v %P%N"

Notice that you cannot use %P%N in the Command Field - you have to put that in the Parameters Field.