AllDup causes sleeping drives to awaken
Posted: 06 Sep 2022, 22:33
AllDup causes sleeping drives to awaken.
It might be nice if it didn't do that - when started from a command-line & passed directory names.
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alldup 4518
if run from command line
if passed directory
START "" AllDupPortable.exe %XDIRNAME%
on program load
it attempts to enumerate all directories listed in (that may have happened to exist in) Source Folders
& if said directories are on drives that have spun down
then the program is "paused" as the drives spin up
- might be nice, if when run from command-line, along with a specific directory to search,
that it did not try to enumerate anything else
i don't necessarily mind that directories are added to the Source Folders list
- which can be avoided with the -n switch,
but i'd rather not have ones that "happen to be there" from being enumerated,
slowing down load (minimally if drives are already spun up, or a bit more,
significantly if drives have gone to sleep)
i'll note that:
if you use -n, then after doing "whatever", then exiting back to the main window,
you cannot then go & do, again, a Start Search - in order to perform the same
search over again - without first [re-adding] adding the source directory,
(as the directory list would be empty)
It might be nice if it didn't do that - when started from a command-line & passed directory names.
---
alldup 4518
if run from command line
if passed directory
START "" AllDupPortable.exe %XDIRNAME%
on program load
it attempts to enumerate all directories listed in (that may have happened to exist in) Source Folders
& if said directories are on drives that have spun down
then the program is "paused" as the drives spin up
- might be nice, if when run from command-line, along with a specific directory to search,
that it did not try to enumerate anything else
i don't necessarily mind that directories are added to the Source Folders list
- which can be avoided with the -n switch,
but i'd rather not have ones that "happen to be there" from being enumerated,
slowing down load (minimally if drives are already spun up, or a bit more,
significantly if drives have gone to sleep)
i'll note that:
if you use -n, then after doing "whatever", then exiting back to the main window,
you cannot then go & do, again, a Start Search - in order to perform the same
search over again - without first [re-adding] adding the source directory,
(as the directory list would be empty)