Storage Colors Legend (what is gold?)

[MrMark]

Please see attached screenshot. What does the yellow/gold color indicate? It would be nice to get more than 9TB out of a 10TB drive.

[BruceH]

Not sure what the gold color is but a 10TB hard drive will only have a formatted capacity of 9.09TB, not sure how it would be possible to have more than that available

You could take a look at this for some explanation of the facts!
https://platinumdatarecovery.com/hard-d ... calculator

[MrMark]

Well...I think that most people would very understandably expect the advertised drive size to be the same as the OS reports. But I've been working with computers since the dawn, so I do understand that binary HDD bytes are not the same as what the OS reports. I personally feel like it's ridiculous, but it's one of those things that "is what it is", as some like to say.

I still want to know what that gold color represents!

[BruceH]

Did you look in Disk Management on your computer to see what it might represent, I checked my system and it does not show any partitions with the "gold" color. Possibly a recovery partition, as my computer was custom built by myself it does not have a recovery partition.

[MrMark]

That's a good thought, but it looks totally simple and clean to me:

Screenshot 2024-04-23 194333.jpg (42.82 KiB) Viewed 148 times

Notice too that the 9313.98 GB shown by Windows doesn't match any of the numbers shown by Blue Iris. The numbers for D: drive don't match either, but at least it doesn't have that mysterious gold section.

[BruceH]

I don't have any other ideas on what it might be, I would think that a recovery portion would show up in disk management. Hopefully someone else might have some ideas.

[MrMark]

Blue Iris has so much potential...there's just no telling what all it could do, if only we knew what all of it was, and exactly how to use it. This mystery yellow/gold thing is just a tiny example of a thing that is right there in the interface for all to see, but not mentioned in the documentation at all.

[MikeBwca]

Blue Iris has so much potential...there's just no telling what all it could do, if only we knew what all of it was, and exactly how to use it. This mystery yellow/gold thing is just a tiny example of a thing that is right there in the interface for all to see, but not mentioned at the documentation at all.

As well as other options...

[MrMark]

I just wanted to let you guys know that I finally figured it out. Ken told me that the gold part of the bar indicates that a drive designated as exclusive use has other files present. These could actually be Blue Iris files if they are part of the database or the log however, they could also represent bad sectors on the drive that do not show up as usable space to the operating system.

In my case, the gold part of the bar was the result of renaming a camera. I discovered this by moving the .BVR files associated with that renamed camera to a different drive. The number near the end of the green part of the bar went from 113.5 GB to 336.2 GB, so I recovered 222.7 GB.

The fundamental problem is that renaming a camera in BI does not rename the associated alert or .BVR files, and BI then blithely disregards those files because they don’t match the new name in the BI database. At that point, if one wants to get one’s hard-gotten footage back, one is left with little choice but to muck around with manually renaming files and then manually repairing the database (which, in my experience, works only with the delete option), making the simple act of renaming a camera take half a day instead of half a minute. If one does not jump through these hoops, then the files associated with the old camera name will be stranded and taking up drive space forever more. Unless I’m missing something…(?)

[TimG]

Dang ! and I was thinking your graphics card was on the blink

Repeat after me: It's not a bug, it's a feature