Minor bug: Non-focused window doesn't update filesize

[Loren Pechtel]

I've got a task running in the background that's dropping files in a directory. Total Commander has this directory in one of it's panes but it does not have focus. Every time a new file is created Total Commander notes this, the directory updates with the new file at size zero. However, it does not update the size of the files it's already shown.

The window corrects itself if focused.

[petermad]

Try experimenting with the options in the "Configuration" - -> "Refresh" settings - fx. remove the checkmark in "Don't react to updates while in the background" if it is set.

[Loren Pechtel]

Try experimenting with the options in the "Configuration" - -> "Refresh" settings - fx. remove the checkmark in "Don't react to updates while in the background" if it is set.

That wasn't it--there was an unchecked option in there:

"Also when size, date or attributes change". That's exactly what the issue was--it wasn't reacting to size changes.

[HolgerK]

@ Loren Pechtel

I can confirm this since vista / windows 7 does an extensive file caching.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE
0x00000008

Any file-size change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return. The operating system detects a change in file size only when the file is written to the disk. For operating systems that use extensive caching, detection occurs only when the cache is sufficiently flushed.

Only way around is manual refresh with <Ctrl+R> (with Configuration->Options.. Icons [x] Show overlay Icons enabled).
The read operation triggered by the refresh of the overlay icons seems to flush the ntfs cache.

Regards
Holger

[Loren Pechtel]

@ Loren Pechtel

I can confirm this since vista / windows 7 does an extensive file caching.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE
0x00000008

Any file-size change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return. The operating system detects a change in file size only when the file is written to the disk. For operating systems that use extensive caching, detection occurs only when the cache is sufficiently flushed.

Only way around is manual refresh with <Ctrl+R> (with Configuration->Options.. Icons [x] Show overlay Icons enabled).
The read operation triggered by the refresh of the overlay icons seems to flush the ntfs cache.

Regards
Holger

It's just it looks wrong when you see the new files popping in on the screen while the old ones stay at size zero. Since it was a config option I retract calling it a bug.