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Re: Files on RAM FS cannot be opened via double-click

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Sorry that's not something we can download or test. However, we've just published a new build with several fixes that might help - please install it over, reboot, and let us know if it resolves your issue. In the new build, RAM FS volumes identify themselves as NTFS instead of RAMFS. This is because some third-party tools don't understand non-standard filesystems and refuse to work with them, o

Re: Files on RAM FS cannot be opened via double-click

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

So far, everything points to the antivirus. It would typically ignore text files, as they don't contain viruses, but attempt to scan other files like PDFs, Word document, archive files. So my question remains: what antivirus or security product are you using? Please include the exact product name and version.

Re: Files on RAM FS cannot be opened via double-click

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thanks - that's actually reassuring: the files themselves are almost certainly fine. A damaged document or archive would make the app launch and show an error, not hang silently with a spinning cursor. A hang that happens on double-click but not via "Open with…" points at the shell open path, not the file contents - and since both Word and WinRAR are affected that way, the likely culprit

Re: Files on RAM FS cannot be opened via double-click

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thanks for testing. A few things to narrow this down: Did you restart Windows after installing 26.7.1? The driver only switches to the new version on reboot. Which browser do you use, and is your TEMP/TMP, browser cache or Downloads folder redirected onto the RAM FS volume? Does a file copied onto the volume (rather than downloaded) open normally? Is it all files, or only Office documents and arc

Re: Files on RAM FS cannot be opened via double-click

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Update: we've released version 26.7.1 with fixes addressing several issues. Please try it a let us know whether it resolves your issue as well.

Re: Installation issues with RAM File System - Fixed

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Just an update: we've consolidated four fixes addressing the issues you reported. If you could retest the new version 26.7.1, we'd really appreciate it. Fixes: Fixed: Memory-mapped file writes could be lost, resulting in empty or corrupted output. Fixed: Applications requiring administrator privileges would not launch from a volume. Fixed: Renaming or moving files across a junction onto a volu

Re: Installation issues with RAM File System

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thanks for the detailed report - it's genuinely helpful. 1. Unchangeable language issue - fixed. You found a true bug. Internally, choosing "English" was being treated the same as "follow the Windows display language", so on your German system it kept coming back to German no matter what you selected. This fix will be added in the next update. 2. Drive S activation issue

Re: Files on RAM FS cannot be opened via double-click

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

No, it's not normal, but it's something we can't reproduce either. To pin down exactly why the file won't open, we need a low-level trace of what your Windows is doing at the moment it fails. The tool for this is Process Monitor, a free Microsoft/Sysinternals utility. It only takes a couple of minutes and no installation needed. Start Procmon64.exe as administrator then press Ctrl+L to open

Re: Can RAM Disk and RAM File System be used simultaneously?

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

We haven't finalised the details of the discount yet, including whether it will apply to one-year updates, unlimited updates, or both. That said, we understand why it might feel like a missed opportunity for you to buy RAM Disk only to see RAM File System released shortly afterwards. We are most likely going to provide complimentary RAM File System licences to customers who bought RAM Disk with

Re: Can RAM Disk and RAM File System be used simultaneously?

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

RAM Disk and RAM File System can be used on the same computer at the same time. They are completely independent products and do not interact or interfere with each other. They are also licensed separately. While the RAM File System UI was intentionally designed to look familiar for RAM Disk users, the two products share almost no code internally. They use completely different architectures. Eac

Re: Understanding how a RAM disk works

2 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

When Windows runs a program, it doesn't simply fully load the file into memory and hold onto it. It maps the file, then copies bits of it into RAM when they are actually needed. If your app is small, within a second or two everything it needed was already sitting in RAM. The file on disk had become irrelevant. A format doesn't erase data - it just writes a fresh, empty index. The old bytes are

Re: Certificate Monitor suggestion: Avoid unnecessary re-scanning of all hosts

2 months ago, by Andrew in Network Toolkit Forum

Thanks for the suggestion. You were absolutely right that re-scanning every host on each add or edit was excessive, especially while you're building the list up gradually. We've implemented both of your points: Adding, editing, or duplicating a host now re-checks only that host, instead of triggering a full re-scan of everything. You can now re-check a specific host on demand. Simply right-clic

Re: Suggestion: Creating folders and drives with access permissions

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

That should work fine. Image files are sparse, so even a 50 GB image will only use a few MB of disk space for its metadata structures.

Re: Manual mounting of image file shows I/O error

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thanks for the detailed report - it actually points straight at the cause. Manual image-backed RAM disks are still fully supported. Nothing is wrong with your image file (as you correctly deduced). What changed and why In a recent build we closed a local security hole in the kernel driver. Previously, when a RAM disk was mounted with an image file, the driver opened that image file using the

Re: Suggestion: Creating folders and drives with access permissions

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thank you for the suggestion. A per-folder permissions editor with preset ACL sets is something we may consider for the future, but there's no need to write scripts to achieve this right now - RAM Disk already supports predefined folders and custom NTFS permissions through an image-based disk: Create an image via Image – Create Image. Mount it via Image – Mount Image, then copy your folders onto

Re: Disabling minifilter drivers for a RAM disk

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

It will be a separate product rather than an additional file system option within the RAM Disk, as architecturally it's completely different and doesn't share any components with the RAM Disk. The RAM Disk will remain unchanged, supporting FAT, exFAT and NTFS, while the RAM Filesystem will support a single file system only: RAMFS. Because RAMFS is a purpose-built file system, it can offer setti

Re: Suggestions: Statistics toggle and reduced TRIM interval

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thanks for the video. It's very clear. What you're seeing is a deliberate safeguard we put in place to prevent the system from running out of memory and crashing. This behaviour is documented in dynamic allocation: QuoteMemory pressure: To maintain system stability, the driver will stop allocating memory when 1 GB or less of RAM remains available. If this occurs, I/O operations to the RAM disk

Certificate Monitor: Distinguished name error with Let's Encrypt IP Address Cert - Fixed

3 months ago, by Andrew in Network Toolkit Forum

Thanks for reporting this. It turned out to be a bug in the component we use for parsing certificates. On Windows it converted UTC timestamps to local time correctly, but on other platforms it left them in UTC. This has now been fixed in the new build.

Re: Import and export of settings

3 months ago, by Andrew in NetGenius Forum

Thanks for the kind words - good to hear NetGenius has served you well. You're right that there isn't a backup button at the moment. It's a sensible idea, so we've noted it as a feature request for a future update. In the meantime, backing things up by hand is straightforward and doesn't involve the registry. Everything you care about: your program priorities, bandwidth limits and general se

Re: Certificate Monitor: Distinguished name error with Let's Encrypt IP Address Cert

3 months ago, by Andrew in Network Toolkit Forum

Thanks for testing. The pre-release you tried only fixed part of the problem the certificate check was still failing deeper inside the TLS handshake, which is why the same error came back. The complete fix is in the new release, version 26.7. It no longer relies on the certificate's Common Name for IP-address hosts (Let's Encrypt IP certificates don't have one - the IP is carried only in the Su

Re: Suggestions: Statistics toggle and reduced TRIM interval

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

We've addressed both in the latest version (26.7), just a bit differently than proposed. Faster memory release: you were right that ~70 s was too long. Rather than a setting, we simply made it faster across the board: deleted-file memory on NTFS now clears in about 10–15 seconds. exFAT takes a little longer by design (no native TRIM, so we scan the allocation bitmap with confirmation passes).

Re: Certificate Monitor: Distinguished name error with Let's Encrypt IP Address Cert

3 months ago, by Andrew in Network Toolkit Forum

Thanks for the report - and for including the Let's Encrypt link, it pointed us straight at the cause. Let's Encrypt's new short-lived IP-address certificates don't include a Common Name (CN) in the subject. Where an ordinary certificate has something like CN=example.com, these leave the subject empty and place the IP address only in the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) field. Certificate Monitor

Re: Disabling minifilter drivers for a RAM disk

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

You can't cleanly disable the whole minifilter stack per-volume. Minifilters decide whether to attach themselves, and the volume gets no veto. What you can do: See what's attached: fltmc instances -v X: Detach a specific one: fltmc detach <Filter> X: The one that actually matters is antivirus. It's best handled by exclusion, for example Windows Defender can be configured to exclude speci

Re: Conditional RegEx captures and replacements

3 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum

Remote Python columns are evaluated before Remote Scripting (VBScript) columns, so on the first scan of a host the Location value didn't exist yet when your Python script ran - Input.Column("Location" returned empty. A rescan worked because the value was already there from the previous pass. This is now fixed: a Python column reading a Remote Scripting column via Input.Column(...) reso

Re: Cannot mount saved image on Mac - Solved

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Yes, the older version was a login item, while the latest version registers itself as a background activity. Thanks for letting us know. We'll see how if we can clean it up automatically.

Re: Where does RAM Disk store the statistics?

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

There are two statistics areas under the driver's service key, and only one of them ever touches the physical disk: VolatileStatistics is updated 10 times a second, but it's a volatile registry key. It exists only in RAM and is never written to disk (it disappears on reboot). It has zero effect on SSD. LifetimeStatistics is the only persistent part: four 64-bit counters, 32 bytes total (lifetime

Re: Cannot mount saved image on Mac

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

It's actually not supposed to open a window on startup. The intended behaviour is for the app to start quietly and show an icon in the menu bar. Are you seeing a normal application window appear after login? If so, could you please give us a screenshot? Also, when restarting your Mac, please make sure that "Reopen windows when logging back in" is not enabled, as that can cause prev

Re: CrystalDiskMark test results

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

It depends on how you use the RAM disk. If the RAM disk is only being used as temporary storage, a cache, build workspace, or scratch area, excluding it from real-time antivirus scanning is usually low risk. Your operating system, applications and permanent storage remain protected, and any files that are later copied to a protected drive will still be scanned there. However, if you regularl

Re: Conditional RegEx captures and replacements

3 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum

Thanks for the details - that narrows it down significantly. The following will let us reproduce it exactly: 1. How is your "Location" column produced? Specifically, is it: a Remote SNMP or Remote WMI query column, or a Virtual Column, or a Remote Scripting (VBScript) column? The reason it matters: columns are populated in a fixed order during a scan, and a Remote Python column rea

Re: Where does RAM Disk store the statistics?

3 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

In the Windows registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SPVVEngine\LifetimeStatistics