We’re pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.0 of iDefrag. NOTE: The auto-update feature is broken in versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 so if this applies to you, please get the update directly from our website. For earlier versions, the auto-update feature should work fine and you can simply select “Check for Updates…” from the iDefrag menu.

In this version we have added support for creating a recovery partition and running iDefrag from it (just as we did with iPartition). You can read more about that particular feature here. To use this feature, simply select “Create Boot Disk…” from the iDefrag menu and follow the instructions.

We also fixed a number of bugs and we sincerely apologise if any of them affected you. You can read full release notes here.

We are aware of some customers who have had problems using iDefrag’s exclusive restart feature with FileVault on 10.7.4. We’ve been unable to reproduce it reliably here. If you do encounter problems with this version and you have trouble booting your machine after trying, simply hold down the “Shift” key soon after you power on your machine and then your machine should boot normally. As with any problem you encounter, we ask that you let us know about it so we can improve our software. As an aside, we’re not convinced that you will see a big benefit from defragmenting volumes that are encrypted using FileVault because it has it’s own fragmentation which iDefrag doesn’t tackle and any performance benefit that you might see from using iDefrag is likely to be insignificant compared that incurred from using encryption.

Please contact or support team with any feedback or support requests.