MM keeping external hard drive awake
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:08 pm
I'm using MM Gold 4.1.30.1914 and all my music is on an external USB hard drive - let's call it drive D:. I have turned off folder monitoring.
Problem: MM keeps accessing this drive every couple of minutes. As a result it keeps the drive constantly spinning. When MM is not running, the drive does go to sleep.
Preferred solution: Allow this drive to spin down per the computer's energy policy (in reality, I only access this music a couple times a week).
Process Monitor tells me what's happening to a certain extent:
Does anyone have an idea why MM does this every couple of minutes, 24 hours a day?
Problem: MM keeps accessing this drive every couple of minutes. As a result it keeps the drive constantly spinning. When MM is not running, the drive does go to sleep.
Preferred solution: Allow this drive to spin down per the computer's energy policy (in reality, I only access this music a couple times a week).
Process Monitor tells me what's happening to a certain extent:
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1:55:50.0327754 PM MediaMonkey.exe 5140 CreateFile D:\ SUCCESS Desired Access: Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
1:55:50.0327928 PM MediaMonkey.exe 5140 QueryNameInformationFile D:\ SUCCESS Name: \
1:55:50.0328022 PM MediaMonkey.exe 5140 QueryInformationVolume D:\ SUCCESS VolumeCreationTime: 10/27/2010 7:35:55 PM, VolumeSerialNumber: C056-BDE3, SupportsObjects: True, VolumeLabel: Drobo
1:55:50.0328424 PM MediaMonkey.exe 5140 QueryAttributeInformationVolume D:\ SUCCESS FileSystemAttributes: Case Preserved, Case Sensitive, Unicode, ACLs, Compression, Named Streams, EFS, Object IDs, Reparse Points, Sparse Files, Quotas, Transactions, 0x3c00600, MaximumComponentNameLength: 255, FileSystemName: NTFS
1:55:50.0328490 PM MediaMonkey.exe 5140 CloseFile D:\ SUCCESS