Re[2]: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread Bill Blinn Technology Editor
At 9:52 PM on 2/19/2004, ken green typed ... k Yikes! That's putting it nicely... Why would anyone run a machine that k close to capacity? Hard drives aren't that expensive... Get more space! Back in the old days when the big (40MB shared by 35 people) hard drives on the DEC PDP-11 RS/TS

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Bill, On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:43:53 -0500 GMT (20/02/2004, 19:43 +0700 GMT), Bill Blinn Technology Editor wrote: This is quickly moving into the OT realm, but I'll reply anyway. Back in the old days when the big (40MB shared by 35 people) hard drives on the DEC PDP-11 RS/TS system

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread ken green
Chris wrote: I can imagine the performance issues one would encounter with a 95% filled HD. No you can't. Damn. Fat-fingered that one. I meant to type I can't imagine... -- Ken Green Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread Anne
On Friday, February 20, 2004, 3:10:31 AM, Chris wrote in message: mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C Linux doesn't really complain; it just saves every thing to C /dev/null. :-) Which is interesting as I've just tried to download mail using TB! in Xandros and nothing would save to hd - a message in all

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread Anne
On Thursday, February 19, 2004, 8:17:58 PM, Peter wrote in message: mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P Like 'Not enough space to store / copy / move / whatever mail', P and then _not_ deleting it from the server. This is pretty much the message I had today with TB! under Xandros though... the mail wasn't

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, * Bill Blinn Technology Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED], Friday, February 20, 2004, 1:43:53 PM: Doesn't Windows start carping when free space drops below 85% or so? I may be remembering something that didn't occur, but I seem to recall some version of Windows grumbling about this. yeah. but

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-20 Thread Chris
Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 20-Feb-2004 1:46:30 PM Bat doesn't notice when hdd full mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Which is interesting as I've just tried to download mail using TB! in Xandros and nothing would save to hd - a message in all account logs reads: Well, when you are running Windows under

Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, I had just a case of my System-drive (where I have my mails) running full, and theBat didn't do anything about it, it just stopped working. I couldn't even delete mails, and had hoped for a hint about my full Drive. Anyone seen this before? Is this a bug? Timo

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Bill Blinn Technology Editor
At 7:29 AM on 2/19/2004, Timo Boettcher typed ... T I had just a case of my System-drive (where I have my mails) T running full, and theBat didn't do anything about it, it just T stopped working. T I couldn't even delete mails, and had hoped for a hint about my T full Drive. T

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo Timo, On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:29:07 +0100GMT (19-2-04, 13:29 +0100, where I live), you wrote: TB I had just a case of my System-drive (where I have my mails) TB running full, and theBat didn't do anything about it, it just TB stopped working. Well, TB needs free space to work properly,

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Roelof, * Roelof Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thursday, February 19, 2004, 3:13:00 PM: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:29:07 +0100GMT (19-2-04, 13:29 +0100, where I live), you wrote: I had just a case of my System-drive (where I have my mails) running full, and theBat didn't do anything about it, it

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Timo, On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:31:36 +0100 GMT (19/02/2004, 23:31 +0700 GMT), Timo Boettcher wrote: I had just a case of my System-drive (where I have my mails) running full, and theBat didn't do anything about it, it just stopped working. Well, TB needs free space to work properly,

Re[2]: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Thursday, February 19, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: I had just a case of my System-drive (where I have my mails) running full, and theBat didn't do anything about it, it just stopped working. Well, TB needs free space to work properly, downloading new mail and composing mail are

Re[3]: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Ouwehand
Hello Marek Mikus, on Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:52:17 +0100 (2004-02-19 19:52:17 in .nl) in the message with reference mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] you [MM] wrote (at least in part): Well, TB needs free space to work properly, downloading new mail and composing mail are functions that require disk space.

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Chris
Bill Blinn Technology Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 19-Feb-2004 8:37:00 AM Bat doesn't notice when hdd full mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't encountered this, but I wouldn't consider it a bug. It's up to the operating system and the operator to keep an eye on disk usage. Anytime the disk drive

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread ken green
Bill Blinn Technology Editor wrote: It's up to the operating system and the operator to keep an eye on disk usage. Yikes! That's putting it nicely... Why would anyone run a machine that close to capacity? Hard drives aren't that expensive... Get more space! Windows doesn't even like to

Re: Bat doesn't notice when hdd full

2004-02-19 Thread Chris
ken green [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 19-Feb-2004 9:52:56 PM Bat doesn't notice when hdd full mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can imagine the performance issues one would encounter with a 95% filled HD. No you can't. It's much worse than you think. And it's even worse on a Mac. Linux doesn't really complain