Re: discarding history
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:07 pm
Oh I agree. I'm not saying it's a "good feature", just that nearly loosing all your data is (arguably) better than "bang, crash, all gone".
It's a bit problematic for applications to monitor disk space because they cannot be fully aware of everything else that your computer is doing (for example, if Windows needs to resize the swap file, or if you launch another application, or if you have another application running that is writing to disk...). It is therefore normally left to the operating system to warn of critically low disk space. Windows XP does this by default and I presume that later versions of Windows also do (but I've never tested that). If Windows did not warn that you were critically low on disk space, it is quite likely that you have that feature turned off (I have it turned off on my old XP box because I can't be doing with it bugging me every 5 minutes to tell me that I'm low on disk space - I already know that I'm low on disk space
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Open Audacity,
Click on the Record Button,
Place the mouse pointer over a blank bit of the Audacity window (or if not maximized, over a blank bit of desktop).
Let go of the mouse,
Relax back in your chair and let your gaze rest on the bottom of the main Audacity window.
It's a bit problematic for applications to monitor disk space because they cannot be fully aware of everything else that your computer is doing (for example, if Windows needs to resize the swap file, or if you launch another application, or if you have another application running that is writing to disk...). It is therefore normally left to the operating system to warn of critically low disk space. Windows XP does this by default and I presume that later versions of Windows also do (but I've never tested that). If Windows did not warn that you were critically low on disk space, it is quite likely that you have that feature turned off (I have it turned off on my old XP box because I can't be doing with it bugging me every 5 minutes to tell me that I'm low on disk space - I already know that I'm low on disk space
)It's not very prominent, and it's not there all the time, so it's easy to miss.AlanHK wrote:I can't see this (in 1.3.9)
Open Audacity,
Click on the Record Button,
Place the mouse pointer over a blank bit of the Audacity window (or if not maximized, over a blank bit of desktop).
Let go of the mouse,
Relax back in your chair and let your gaze rest on the bottom of the main Audacity window.