Prevent hard-drives from going into sleep mode.
License: MIT License
If an external drive goes offline the app generates fail messages for each attempt to write. There is no way to kill the process other than a reboot.
During a reboot after sleeping, the app caused Windows to stall. An error eventually poped up stating the data could not be savede, etc.. Afterward, Windows rebooted normally.
The suggestion is take into account the possiblilty the app will be running when the PC goes to sleep.
Please add the options to always show tray icon and to display the window on double click on tray icon.
I realize this is probably a lot to ask, but will KeepAliveHD ever be ported to Linux?
If KeepAliveHD can't be ported to Linux but the author has any Linux experience, may I ask how I would achieve the same functionality of KeepAliveHD on an Ubuntu system, using other software? Any software recommendations or step by step instructions as to how you would get the same functionality on a Linux machine?
Thanks for this little piece of software, by the way. Very useful for keeping USB hard drives from spinning down and possibly dying. And thanks for moving to Github after Codeplex shut down.
It would be nice if the application could have an option to install itself as a system service, so that the user can remove the icon from systray, having the process always running in background.
I use KeepAliveHD with a number of external drives.
My drives are sometimes removed or turned off.
When this happens, KeepAliveHD shows an error but I cant determine which drive it related to because the error message does not include the drive details
The current error message is
Please add the drive letter somewhere in the error message.
I suggest the following, with the drive letter mentioned in the window title and error text
Thank you for the software.
It has been useful to me.
Can a settings option be added to disable "reading" if the user is not active for x amount of time, just like the "Disable writing..." option?
Hi after latest WIN 11 Updates, program not start
Název chybující aplikace: KeepAliveHD.exe, verze: 1.6.2.0, časové razítko: 0x592bf9a2
Název chybujícího modulu: KERNELBASE.dll, verze: 10.0.22000.675, časové razítko: 0x8d5bd3da
Kód výjimky: 0xe0434352
Posun chyby: 0x000000000004474c
ID chybujícího procesu: 0x2d80
Čas spuštění chybující aplikace: 0x01d86e3c20b9ee47
Cesta k chybující aplikaci: C:\Program Files\Keep Alive HD\KeepAliveHD.exe
Cesta k chybujícímu modulu: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
ID zprávy: 73281c4b-b674-49d7-a0c1-c7b711bfc150
Úplný název chybujícího balíčku:
ID aplikace související s chybujícím balíčkem:
Aplikace: KeepAliveHD.exe
Verze Framework: v4.0.30319
Popis: Proces byl ukončen z důvodu neošetřené výjimky.
Informace o výjimce: System.ArgumentNullException
na System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectMany[[System.__Canon, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[System.__Canon, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[System.__Canon, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]](System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1<System.__Canon>, System.Func2<System.__Canon,System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1<System.__Canon>>, System.Func3<System.__Canon,System.__Canon,System.__Canon>)
na KeepAliveHD.BaseClasses.ApplicationConfiguration.GetValue(System.String, System.String, System.String)
na KeepAliveHD.BaseClasses.ApplicationConfiguration.GetValueBool(System.String, System.String, Boolean)
na KeepAliveHD.BaseClasses.LogManager.Write(System.String, System.Object[])
na KeepAliveHD.Program.Main(System.String[])
Thanks for reaction ;)
many month's no problem and running fine.
After I added the initial setting, I can't get the menu to open. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. Tried installing different version too. Nothing's happening.
Whenever I open my laptop's lid and it resumes from sleep mode, I see this error message:
I also get the following two errors in Windows Event Log:
Log Name: System
Source: Ntfs
Date: 28/06/2017 12:01:14
Event ID: 57
Task Category: (2)
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Republic
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
Log Name: System
Source: Disk
Date: 28/06/2017 12:01:14
Event ID: 51
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Republic
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR5 during a paging operation.
Event Xml:
I use 6 external hard drives and use KeepAliveHD to keep all of them active
I sometimes remove or turn off one of these drives.
When that happens, KeepAliveHD repeatedly shows this error message ...
KeepAliveHD.exe - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \KeepAliveHD.txt; the data has been lost. This error may be caused if the device has been removed or the media is write-protected.
If I close this message, it reappeared again and I cant get rid of it
SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT
Like in Task Scheduler, for example, so it's not dependent upon someone logging in.
I've tried doing that on Win10, and it certainly runs, but it doesn't do anything (Task Manager shows that reads/writes stop accruing immediately, and KeepAliveHD.txt is never updated). It's the same result when run as a service.
I've seen this with some programs before when trying to run this way, and sometimes it relates to the fact that their tray icon never appears, which is the case here. It doesn't really matter that it doesn't appear, since it's already configured--and the system may just be on with no user logged in anyway--except for the possibility that this may be what's stopping it from working when run like this.
Thanks for an ideas, and keep up the good work
If you select the time period and type in a time, it will not save unless you press enter or used the arrow keys. I think it should by default because it's totally possible for the user to not realize this. I would have never realized that my setting had not saved had I not rechecked.
I have been using KeepAliveHD 1.62 beta for a few months and lately I have been having my music stop playing when playing HD videos from an 8tb Seagate Archive drive and having KA set to write every 22 seconds to the drive. It didn't happen constantly but it happened at least once or twice in a night during a 4 hour period. I checked the hard drive thoroughly with SeaTools and chkdsk and didn't find any problems. Got this error in the Windows system error logs.
Application popup: .NET-BroadcastEventWindow.4.0.0.0.348c725.0: KeepAliveHD.exe - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \KeepAliveHD.txt; the data has been lost. This error may be caused if the device has been removed or the media is write-protected.
After this popup I got many errors while playing the video and the video and sound stopped completely for over 30 seconds until I loaded a new track into the player.
Here is the error I got over and over in the error log related to the hard drive it was reading from (and KA was writing to): An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation.
Once I turned off KA on that hard drive it didn't have any errors and I tested it for over 12 hours straight playing videos.
Please include an option to Hide the tray icon, so that the program can run invisibly if the user chooses.
In order to display the KeepAliveHD window, the user would simply run the keepaliveHd.exe again (or a shortcut to it) and this would restore the window from its hidden state.
The Window "tray" notification area is really meant for programs that send notifications and alerts to the user, rather than being just a quick launch area. Once I have set up my KeepAliveHD options, I have little need to keep changing them on a regular basis, so the icon always being present in the notification area is somewhat redundant. Windows can prevent a tray icon from displaying permanently on the taskbar, but it can't remove it from the notification area altogether.
Having the option to show or hide the KeepAliveHD icon lets the user decide for themselves how they wish to use it.
Thanks!
I would like to put this program in autostart and forget about it. However when I'm using my notebook without a power power plug I would like to allow HDD sleep
The program is showing on Alt+Tab list.
To replicate, use Alt+Tab immediately after the computer starts.
After that, the program is not present in the list.
Please fix it.
Add a time counter for each assignment showing time left until next read/write
I kindly ask you to tell me if an automatic check of disk online status can be added to KeepAliveHD.
With this feature activated, the program can check at a time interval if other disks becomes active/online and to enable writing automatically if they are on writing mode list.
Please add the ability to disable and enable multi-selected drives on the configuration tab
SUGGESTED USER INTERFACE CHANGES
right mouse button to show a popup menu with options for enable / disable / remove
add buttons for [Enabled Drive] and [Disable Drive] similar to the current [Remove Drive] button. If this makes the screen to cluttered just skip this and go with option (1) above instead
Thank you
Make a portable version of KeepAliveHD... or at least allow the installation file to be unzipped.
Thanks for your application! It's quite helpful when viewing media from a drive I prefer to go idle when not in use.
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I notice my drive going to sleep when read is set and I don't see any activity? I tried setting it to the root of the drive or a folder. Is there a trick to it? Thanks.
Should be "after it has been written".
I get this error message, and when I press OK or cross it out, it instantly reappears.
The error message does not show which drive that leads to the issue, and cant be removed, even though Ive force closed the application with task manager the error window is impossible to remove.
This app is useful when it works, but it has always had issues recognizing that a removable drive is just that - removable! It fails to reconnect external drives and to make it worse it identifies them as 'fixed'.
Because it doesn't cope with removable drives it fails to keep them awake. Can you please fix it?
When log error messages is OFF, KeepAliveHD still creates log files (empty) in AppData\Roaming.
Please make the program to stop creating files when log is off.
Its really good.Can you guyz tell me, when exactly new version come with best features?
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Unless I'm wrong, 1 second interval isn't really 1 second, well it is for the first few seconds, but after that it takes long and longer.......eventually the 1 second interval will turn into a 30 second interval, 31 second interval, 50 second interval 2 minutes.....you get the idea..... I think this might be a thing for other intervals too, if you set it for 5 minutes, it's 5 minutes for the first few times but then gradually gets longer.....and longer......until that interval becomes too long that windows 10's USB standby/sleep mode kicks and rendering the drive dead and the only way to kick it going again is to pull out the plug and replug it in...and rinse and repeat with your KeepAliveHD program....
Now if you could somehow fix this bug such that it reads the the drive in its specified interval CONSISTENTLY, then your program will work for long hrs.....like more than 8 hrs straight of continuous work.....
As it stands, it basically shits itself after the 1 hr mark forcing me to replug the damn USB drive.....2 hrs if your lucky.......
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