Yesterday Pale Moon announced it would update itself to 29.3.0. When I started the (Windows) computer again, the Pale Moon executable file had disappeared. The profile was there and the FEBE backups too.
After some intranquility, I thought it was probably because the available disk space in that disk drive was about 200 MB. I deleted some files and downloaded the last installer (using another browser). When run, it installed Pale Moon and all my addons and settings are back in place.
I see now that https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml explicitly asks for "At least 300 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space"
What I am trying to communicate is that I'd have liked that, if Pale Moon can't update for lack of space, it would have failed in a more graceful way than deleting the executable and removing the Pale Moon entries from the desk menus. I don't know how it could be done, but it would have saved me some distress.
Anyway, thanks for the work on the browser.
Updating when short of disk space
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- Pentium4User
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Re: Updating when short of disk space
You should at least have 1 GB or more free.
If the full installer is being downloaded, it need some space.
If the full installer is being downloaded, it need some space.
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- stevenpusser
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Re: Updating when short of disk space
Holy moly, can't you delete or move stuff off that partition to make more room? Linux filesystems perform worse if they don't have at least 10% free.
How many Windows updates or restore points are on that partition?
How many Windows updates or restore points are on that partition?
Re: Updating when short of disk space
In Linux you could do something like this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/811 ... on-in-bash
So presumably there might be some Windows equivalent. (I could probably search something but couldn't test if it works as expected except perhaps in Wine )
And you always see this pacman message: "checking available disk space" so some "installers" do this.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/811 ... on-in-bash
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$ echo $(($(stat -f --format="%a*%S" .)))
$ echo $(($(stat -f --format="%a*%S" .)/10**6))
And you always see this pacman message: "checking available disk space" so some "installers" do this.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been...
Re: Updating when short of disk space
Yeah, it's called "explorer" or "not ignoring the warnings Windows will give you repeatedly when running low on disk space"
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