Revolter Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 (edited) can somebody explain me what does FileFlush ... what means flushing a file??? Edited November 22, 2010 by Revolter [center]Sorry for my bad english. Trying my best :Dhttp://iulianonofrei.comhttp://www.last.fm/user/Revolt666 [/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted November 18, 2010 Moderators Share Posted November 18, 2010 Revolter,This is the hobbyist's answer - I hope it suffices! Windows does not always write an amended file directly to disk - it may well be reading another file for the moment and so the disk heads are in use. So it puts the amended file contents into a buffer to write later when it has more time and the disk heads are free. Closing a file will force the buffer contents to be "flushed" - that is written to the disk immediately.If you are doing lots of very large file writes and reads, you may find that the file you thought you had amended has not yet had the changes written to it as Windows was too busy. Using FileFlush will force the file to be written to disk - or "flushed" from the buffer.I have only come across this very rarely (the last time was a few months ago when I was trying to use an ini file for interscript communication) - the faster CPUs and disks used nowadays tend not to have this problem.All clear? M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolter Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 (edited) Revolter,This is the hobbyist's answer - I hope it suffices! Windows does not always write an amended file directly to disk - it may well be reading another file for the moment and so the disk heads are in use. So it puts the amended file contents into a buffer to write later when it has more time and the disk heads are free. Closing a file will force the buffer contents to be "flushed" - that is written to the disk immediately.If you are doing lots of very large file writes and reads, you may find that the file you thought you had amended has not yet had the changes written to it as Windows was too busy. Using FileFlush will force the file to be written to disk - or "flushed" from the buffer.I have only come across this very rarely (the last time was a few months ago when I was trying to use an ini file for interscript communication) - the faster CPUs and disks used nowadays tend not to have this problem.All clear? M23interscript communication?? awesome ...:D:D thnkx a lot ... in the autoit help said "flushes the file to disk" but i didn't knew what flush means so it was useless ... Edited November 18, 2010 by Revolter [center]Sorry for my bad english. Trying my best :Dhttp://iulianonofrei.comhttp://www.last.fm/user/Revolt666 [/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaFu Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 You also flush the toilet , a very figurative explanation too ... OS: Win10-22H2 - 64bit - German, AutoIt Version: 3.3.16.1, AutoIt Editor: SciTE, Website: https://funk.eu AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer (2022-Nov-26) BIC - Batch-Image-Cropper (2023-Apr-01) COP - Color Picker (2009-May-21) DCS - Dynamic Cursor Selector (2024-Feb-16) HMW - Hide my Windows (2018-Sep-16) HRC - HotKey Resolution Changer (2012-May-16) ICU - Icon Configuration Utility (2018-Sep-16) SMF - Search my Files (2023-Jun-03) - THE file info and duplicates search tool SSD - Set Sound Device (2017-Sep-16) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolter Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 You also flush the toilet , a very figurative explanation too ...best explanation thnx ) [center]Sorry for my bad english. Trying my best :Dhttp://iulianonofrei.comhttp://www.last.fm/user/Revolt666 [/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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