It’s been a while coming, but we’re pleased to announce that we have today released iDefrag 2.

If you’ve recently purchased iDefrag 1.x from us, you may already have a complementary license for iDefrag 2 (check the My Account page); otherwise, existing customers can upgrade at a reduced rate.

The major new features are:

• You can now run the offline algorithms without needing to create a boot disk; iDefrag can now reboot into a special mode where it has exclusive access to the disk.

• We’ve added the ability to defragment a single file.

• The online algorithm will now reliably skip files that are in use (regardless of whether or not they are using file locking).

• The Statistics pane will give you information about compressed files on Snow Leopard. (iDefrag always preserves compression.)

• The Inspector now shows more information about files.

• Creating a boot disk with iDefrag can be done via a menu option within iDefrag and should be simpler than using CDMaker.

• It is now a 64 bit application.

• The Optimize algorithm can now deal with volumes that have very little, or heavily fragmented, free space (and the “skip files…due to lack of free space” preference has been removed).

• New and improved look.

There are also numerous other great improvements that haven’t been mentioned.

If you’d like to try out the demonstration version, please download it (limited to very small disk images).

For any problems, see our support pages which include ways of contacting us.