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    This section describes techniques for getting more from the Diary - suitable for system administrators and power users.

    Monitoring Hard Drive Space with Infolink
    Configuring the InfoLink Text Editor button

    Last revised 18-Nov-2001 (C) Acute Software 2001

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    Monitoring Hard Drive Space with Infolink

    Screen shot showing InfoLink Disk space By default, every hour infolink checks the available hard drive space on your computer and reports it to you by scrolling the numbers across the green display area.

    When the available hard drive space is lower than the threshold, the menu button (smiley face), turns into a sad face.

    If you have more than 2 drives or partitions, you need to edit the INI file to allow infolink to check them.

    Example netDiary.ini File showing 'general' section

    [general]
    ; The general section includes disk space warings, EXE files to launch, etc
    ;

    NumberOfDisks=3
    Disk_1=C:
    Disk_2=D:
    Disk_3=E:
    LowSpaceWarningInMb_1=750
    LowSpaceWarningInMb_2=400
    LowSpaceWarningInMb_3=400


    NumberOfDisks - this should show how many disks/partitions you are checking. You need to make sure that this number has the correct LowSpaceWarnings and Disk_ entries.

    Disk_n - this is the label of the disk to check. This must be the partition label including the colon (ie C:, D:, N:)

    LowSpaceWarningInMb_n - this is the threshold limit in megabytes which changes the smiley face to a sad face. If any one of the partitions are less than their assigned threshold the face will change to sad.

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    Configuring the InfoLink Text Editor button

    On the Infolink screen, the 5th button from the left hand side (looks similar to 2 pages of notes) is to quickly launch a text editor.
    This can be configured to launch any program by changing the following setting in the netDiary.ini file:

    texteditorEXE=notepad.exe <-- this is the default setting
    texteditorEXE=C:\PROGRAM FILES\ACUTE\DNOTE\dnote.exe <-- change this entry to any program (include path)