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HardDrive widget - Inconsistent reading #19

Open CaseyKazan opened 8 years ago

CaseyKazan commented 8 years ago

Hi. I'm a pretty new user so maybe there is something I'm not doing correctly. However, I am getting random readings on the hard drive volume information with the free space amount fluctuating multiple GBs (even several dozen), even several 100MBs when nothing is going on.

I'm using the Win10 Widgets\HardDrive skin with Rainmeter 4.0.0.0 beta r2613 64-bit (Jul 6 2016).

I don't think I've received the Aug 2, 2016 Windows 10 update yet (unless that is the Security Update for Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4.0 (KB2993928) item in my update history).

However, this has been going on since I installed Rainmeter last month (and I do love it so much more than running Task Manager all the time!).

tjmarkham commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, sorry you're having trouble.

Does the bar on the bottom of the widget fluctuate? Does the text reading fluctuate? Or is it both?

CaseyKazan commented 8 years ago

Neither. The display is not fluctuating or wavering, the DATA it shows is changing and not reflecting the actual free space on the HDD. The actual hard drive free space number is fluctuating. E.g. it might show 100GB free, then it will show 105GB free after nothing has been deleted from the HDD. Or it might not show any change even after multiple GB have actually been added or deleted.

tjmarkham commented 8 years ago

You just said in your first post: "I am getting random readings on the hard drive volume information with the free space amount fluctuating"

I'm asking which representation of the data is fluctuating. The bar on the bottom of the widget? The text? Or both?

In your most recent post it seems like you're talking about the text that indicates free disk space, so at this point I just need to know if the bar that indicates used disk space is also fluctuating.

Also, have you tried selecting (or re-selecting) the hard drive that the widget monitors? To do this, right-click the widget, click "Select from available drives," and then click the drive you wish to monitor.

Thanks!

CaseyKazan commented 8 years ago

TJ: that was as clear as I could be. The FREE SPACE DATA fluctuates in the AMOUNT of free space that is DISPLAYED in the widget. The widget itself is not fluctuating. The numbers and text displayed are not fluctuating. Just the numeric amount of free space available. And since the last time I looked (when I was responding to the other post a couple hours ago), it has fluctuated in the amount of 2.4 GIGABYTES but when I look on File Explorer>C:\, the amount of free space has not changed. I haven't noticed whether the bar changes and quite honestly, it is visually impossible to see the bar move a mere 0.02% of hard drive free space increase or decrease. Even a few percent would be difficult to discern unless I either: leave the cursor under the end of the bar and just sit and watch it endlessly to see if it is also changing or, yes, I actually put a frickin' Post-It on my monitor while I do other stuff and then check and see if it moves. The bar is not particularly useful in and of itself other than providing a visual, gross representation of free space remaining.

tjmarkham commented 8 years ago

Okay, here's something to try that should give us a better idea of the issue.

Open this file: C:\Users\[Your_User_Name]\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\Win10 Widgets\HardDrive\HardDrive-Large.ini

Find the line (should be line ~77) that says: Formula=( (MeasureFreeDisk/#GBconversionFactor#)<10 ? (floor((MeasureFreeDisk/#GBconversionFactor#)*100)/100) : (floor(MeasureFreeDisk*10/#GBconversionFactor#)/10))

and change it to: Formula=(MeasureFreeDisk/#GBconversionFactor#)

Save the file and close it. Right-click the HardDrive widget and click "Refresh skin." Let me know if you still see the issue.

tjmarkham commented 8 years ago

Reported here by same user: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23731