Re: Detecting Hard Drive Space



nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Overview of the saga..
<http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4057701>
....
(please trim 'sig's from replies)

Oh! I didn't realise it was such a hard thing to achieve! And I must admit,
I'm still confused after reading most of that -

I simply skimmed it, after finding the link from a
post on the forum that had referred to it (I recalled
it had been discussed on a number of occasions,
but have had no direct need for 'free space' type
methods - so have not gone deeply into it)

...in the bog standard current
SDK, is it now possible to use a standard method to detect HD space?

My understanding. 1.6 - yes. 1.1 - 1.5 no, not without
some Jakarta commons thing (? I thought I saw some
reference, in the thread).

...Or are
people saying there's still a bug after all these years?!

(shrug) 'people' say lots of things, I think it partly
depends on their perspective.. (I tend to think of
it as a sorely missing functionality, more an RFE,
than any sort of 'bug'.)

Andrew T.

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