6.90RC6: silent abort/exit when nearing disk full
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:34 pmThis happens when there's still stuff in your download queue but the target disk is getting full.
Newsbin silently disappears, often after having unpacked a RAR archive and the disk is (nearly) full.
Notes:
- previous RC versions (and main releases) had the undesirable behaviour of spitting out zero-length RAR files, etc. when the disk full situation has been reached, so this is vastly superiour behaviour (contrasting with older versions which threw up a modal dialog about disk nearly full while still filling it up and overflowing in the background)
- this happens on a system with SSD target disk which has a bit of a peculiarity: it seems MSwindows is a bit confused (haven't been able to dig up WHY exactly), but the "bytes free" report in Windows Explorer is hurrying along at a ridiculous rate for the last ~40GByte. MAYBE MSWin has gotten a bit confused there as it is a disk with most directories marked as "Compressed" (blue color in Windows Explorer instead of black as a visual cue).
- RC6 hasn't spit in my soup yet by running the download queue empty and producing zero-length RAR files, so I very much prefer the new behaviour over the old.
Is this new "abort post haste" behaviour intentional?
Newsbin silently disappears, often after having unpacked a RAR archive and the disk is (nearly) full.
Notes:
- previous RC versions (and main releases) had the undesirable behaviour of spitting out zero-length RAR files, etc. when the disk full situation has been reached, so this is vastly superiour behaviour (contrasting with older versions which threw up a modal dialog about disk nearly full while still filling it up and overflowing in the background)
- this happens on a system with SSD target disk which has a bit of a peculiarity: it seems MSwindows is a bit confused (haven't been able to dig up WHY exactly), but the "bytes free" report in Windows Explorer is hurrying along at a ridiculous rate for the last ~40GByte. MAYBE MSWin has gotten a bit confused there as it is a disk with most directories marked as "Compressed" (blue color in Windows Explorer instead of black as a visual cue).
- RC6 hasn't spit in my soup yet by running the download queue empty and producing zero-length RAR files, so I very much prefer the new behaviour over the old.
Is this new "abort post haste" behaviour intentional?
Sounds like it: when this happens over here, the "Chunks" directory is pretty large (total # bytes in files). (I have learned to nuke it & clear the Windows trashcan (deleted files) before restarting NewsBin Pro when an anomaly happens.)