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Storage Volumes Monitor

Storage Volumes Monitor is a Deskbar replicant which shows bars representing occupied space on mounted volumes (i.e. HD partition, CD, Floppy, Network Drives etc.).

User can select to show bars for all mounted voulmes or only for volumes on HD.
SVM bars looks like ProcessController bars, only with different colors.
By default SVM shows small vertical bar for each mounted volume. If there's many of them, SVM shows two buttons - on left and right. Left-click on them to move currently showed bars to left or right, so you can see next or previous volumes statistics.
You can left-click on bar to open it's root directory.

Right-click on SVM to launch main menu. Main menu has following items:
1. "Volumes" submenu
2. "Bars" submenu
3. "Hints" submenu
4. "Warnings" submenu
5. "Remove from deskbar" option
6. "About..." option

Probably most important in main menu is "Volumes" submenu. It shows more info for each volume - it's icon, name, freespace, occupied space, capcity and horizontal bar showing how much available space is occupied. Freespace, Occupied and Capacity columns can be turned on or off. Just open next submenu (by moving mouse cursor over menu item with columns names) and check which columns you want to see.

Next item in main menu is "Bars" submenu. Here you can change the SVM bars look. "Show removable devices" option will let you decide if you want SVM to show other than real HD devices (like floppy, CD, mounted network drives, etc..). If this option isn't set (no check mark on the left side of submenu item name) SVM will show only mounted HD partitions. If option is set, SVM will show all mounted volumes.

If you set "Use fading colors" option SVM will fade bars colors from full color by percent of volume's space which is occupied. So if volume is 27% full it will fade bar from 100% of color to 27% of color. So if volume is 100% full, color will not be faded at all. "Draw horizontal bar" option changes SVM look in deskbar. If it's set, SVM will draw only one, much bigger than vertical, bar at a time. SVM will also draw it's icon. You can change which volume's bar to show by clicking on buttons on the left and right side of bar (only if there is more than one volume mounted). "Draw volume's name" is enabled only if "Draw horizontal bar" is set. While this option is set SVM will draw volume's name on horizontal bar. Note: By default SVM shows different colors of bars for different types of volumes. If You don't like those, just drag and drop color from some color dropping application (for example Colors!) to change them.
Set "Show hints" to turn hints on. "Show with free space percent" and "Show with occupied space percent" options are enabled ony if "Show hints" option is set. You can set one of them to make SVM show chosen percent along with volume's name on hint.

"Warnings" submenu let's you specify when (if at all) SVM should warn you about volume's free space getting small.
"Show warning when 25% full", "Show warning when 50% full", "Show warning when 75% full"and "Show warning when 95% full" speaks for themselves. Set any or all of them to make SVM warn You when volume's space will be more than x% (chosen percent) occupied. "Warn with window" and "Warn with hint" options decide which way You like to be warned. If with window SVM will show standard BeOS alert window. If with hint SVM will show hint with red background and white text. Hint is less distrupting because it doesn't steal focus from currently focused window. "Turn on all warnings" and "Turn off all warnings" options are used to set or unset all warnings at once.

"Remove from deskbar" option removes SVM from deksbar. SVM will not show there after reboot unless you run it again

"About..." option shows About window.

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