low disk space followed by disk flogging
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:11 amI have three main physical disks. C; is an SSD that I try to keep for OS related stuff only. Windows is such an organizational mess that isn't really possible but I try. D: is the main program file location and h: is for data.
A week ago, Newsbin slowed dramatically for a while. Then it told me I was running out of space on C:, where the app data is stored. I searched through the forum and found two things: I don't need SPOOL_V1 any more, just SPOOL_V6, and if I edit the location in newsbin.nbi I can move the app data location to D:. I did that and copied all files from C: to D:, then restarted Newsbin.
It has been behaving increasingly strangely ever since. First, when I asked it to download latest headers, it decided to download all of them instead. Then it would only display a tiny fraction, and that after a very long time. The next day I tried downloading more and saw only the ones that were there before. Many of the ones I can see were marked old months ago and are back again.
After fiddling with this for a while, I decided that if it was happy on C: I'd let it be on C:. There should be room after getting rid of SPOOL_V1 but I also cleaned up some download and cache folders to make sure.
Now it takes forever to display headers. In fact, it never gets that far. It starts flogging the D: drive relentlessly, which causes the whole system to freeze. I've done a cold boot twice today.
So either I did something wrong moving the data to D: and back to C:, or perhaps it was some sort of corruption issue and never a disk space problem at all. Right now, I'm thinking the solution is to just nuke it and start over. I'm using Newsbin Pro 64 v6.70: 00 F8 30 ED 20 41 on Windows 10 Home.
A week ago, Newsbin slowed dramatically for a while. Then it told me I was running out of space on C:, where the app data is stored. I searched through the forum and found two things: I don't need SPOOL_V1 any more, just SPOOL_V6, and if I edit the location in newsbin.nbi I can move the app data location to D:. I did that and copied all files from C: to D:, then restarted Newsbin.
It has been behaving increasingly strangely ever since. First, when I asked it to download latest headers, it decided to download all of them instead. Then it would only display a tiny fraction, and that after a very long time. The next day I tried downloading more and saw only the ones that were there before. Many of the ones I can see were marked old months ago and are back again.
After fiddling with this for a while, I decided that if it was happy on C: I'd let it be on C:. There should be room after getting rid of SPOOL_V1 but I also cleaned up some download and cache folders to make sure.
Now it takes forever to display headers. In fact, it never gets that far. It starts flogging the D: drive relentlessly, which causes the whole system to freeze. I've done a cold boot twice today.
So either I did something wrong moving the data to D: and back to C:, or perhaps it was some sort of corruption issue and never a disk space problem at all. Right now, I'm thinking the solution is to just nuke it and start over. I'm using Newsbin Pro 64 v6.70: 00 F8 30 ED 20 41 on Windows 10 Home.