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General Software Discussion / Re: "File Size" Not Increasing As It Should Be
« on: December 03, 2018, 02:59 AM »
TotalCommander watches in realtime all changes.
The problem is how windows works or better how you application that write something work.
The filesystem will get a notification message to update explorer (and others) just after a file is written / the application that do writing have to close the filehandle. Some applications send several messages to explorer after they wrote a block of data.
The standard would be:
When an application create a file to write something, and pumps in data, all is done in your windows and hdd cache.
If you want to see every little change in realtime you should disable all caches.
You will notice that your hdd activity will increase by a lot of more disk reading and writing.
All become slower due to this but you will be able to see in realtime how a file grow.
The problem is how windows works or better how you application that write something work.
The filesystem will get a notification message to update explorer (and others) just after a file is written / the application that do writing have to close the filehandle. Some applications send several messages to explorer after they wrote a block of data.
The standard would be:
When an application create a file to write something, and pumps in data, all is done in your windows and hdd cache.
If you want to see every little change in realtime you should disable all caches.
You will notice that your hdd activity will increase by a lot of more disk reading and writing.
All become slower due to this but you will be able to see in realtime how a file grow.