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madFurry - a madMax plotter GUI
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Improper hard drive size reporting #4

Closed Mecadguy closed 3 years ago

Mecadguy commented 3 years ago

Latest version is reporting 404 GB free on empty 16 TB drives.

merakmarey commented 3 years ago

madFurry reports USABLE disk space, not total disk space. This is a Windows function, not a proprietary implementation, therefore probably other apps will report the same. Check your disk or use any diagnostic tool to see if it fixes the issue.

Mecadguy commented 3 years ago

I figured it out; the issue is that I have multiple drives mounted as NTFS shares. The hose drive is a 404GB drive. This is more of a windows issue. I was at first thinking your program was grabbing the wrong drive info, but with an NTFS share it’s simply grabbing the host drive info, which makes sense as the individual drives show as folders.

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madFurry reports USABLE disk space, not total disk space. This is a Windows function, not a proprietary implementation, therefore probably other apps will report the same. Check your disk or use any diagnostic tool to see if it fixes the issue.

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merakmarey commented 3 years ago

Figures. For all the information showns only uses drive letter to check, therefore a NTFS folder would not work. Good catch though!