Bug: UI3 doesn't seem to understand the BI folder setting 'do NOT monitor free space'

[adam-jones-net]

It seems that UI3 doesn't understand the "do NOT monitor free space" option that can be checked in the setup of a folder within BI.

If that is checked, if you go to "Disk usage" within UI3 it will display the yellow warning box "Reported disk info is invalid msg...".

It also reports in red "Overallocated" when its not for that drive above the pie graph (which is also displaying incorrect info).

[bp2008]

Interesting.

Here is the data UI3 gets in my normal configuration:

So to test, I configured the folder on drive "D:" to not monitor free space.

Blue Iris seems to give me bad values for "free" and "total" on the drive that isn't monitoring free space. I'll ask the developer if there is any meaning in the values given, and if I can rely on "total: 0" to mean free space is not monitored.

[adam-jones-net]

If it's useful to know what JSON data BI is sending my browser can you confirm how I can obtain that via the dev console ?

[bp2008]

Sure. On the "Network" tab, you'll see a bunch of rows with name json -- click on each until you find one where the "Preview" subtab shows data: {signal..., then expand the data node and the disks node.

e.g.

[adam-jones-net]

Ok great.... well if useful I can clarify my setup is listed as:

disks: [{disk: "c:", allocated: 1536000, used: 18285, free: 1876887, total: 1952124},…] 0: {disk: "c:", allocated: 1536000, used: 18285, free: 1876887, total: 1952124} 1: {disk: "d:", allocated: 1894400, used: 1300303, free: 606466, total: 1907726} 2: {disk: "Z:", allocated: 102398976, used: 66, free: 2097152, total: 0}

And as you've I'm sure guessed, its the Z: drive with the issue.

[bp2008]

Does your Z: drive actually have about 100 terabytes allocated, with only 66 megabytes used?

[bp2008]

Just trying to figure out if I can trust those data fields.

[bp2008]

When I say "Allocated" I mean the value in the Limit size box. Did you put something close to 100,000 in there?

[adam-jones-net]

Yes and no ;) It's a remote network drive with unlimited storage at google. This confuses BI which is why they made that setting to not monitor free space. And within BI itself that resolves confusions caused by such large disks.

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Does your Z: drive actually have about 100 terabytes allocated, with only 66 megabytes used?

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[adam-jones-net]

I set limit size to 99999 (GB)

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When I say "Allocated" I mean the value in the Limit size box. Did you put something close to 100,000 in there?

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[bp2008]

Ok, that makes sense. So you were able to map an unlimited storage google drive as a network drive in Windows?? Does that perform well? Or is it just something you handle with a local drive and a sync app?

[adam-jones-net]

I know there are various ways of doing this, I happen to use a tool called ExpanDrive that allows you to mount drives from just about any cloud solution you can imagine.

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Ok, that makes sense. So you were able to map an unlimited storage google drive as a network drive in Windows?? Does that perform well? Or is it just something you handle with a local drive and a sync app?

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[adam-jones-net]

And yes it performs well! It's perfect for permanent off-site cloud based cheap storage of old clips.

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I know there are various ways of doing this, I happen to use a tool called ExpanDrive that allows you to mount drives from just about any cloud solution you can imagine.

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[bp2008]

nice!

[bp2008]

The developer got back to me.

Yes, you are correct in assuming ... total:0 means there is no free space monitoring. The software internally sets "Free" to 2TB in this case so that recording does not complain about running out of space. I will suppress that as well to 0 for the JSON output here in today's release.

I've already updated the disk status panel in the source code. I have several other small improvements planned before I make the next release, so you can expect it in UI3-112 ... whenever that is.

[adam-jones-net]

Thanks very much! ;)

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The developer got back to me.

Yes, you are correct in assuming ... total:0 means there is no free space monitoring. The software internally sets "Free" to 2TB in this case so that recording does not complain about running out of space. I will suppress that as well to 0 for the JSON output here in today's release.

I've already updated the disk status panel in the source code. I have several other small improvements planned before I make the next release, so you can expect it in UI3-112 ... whenever that is.

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[bp2008]

This issue is resolved in release 112.