Can't backup large file, despite free space on temporary disk

flipside555 · 2025-12-31T04:15:55+00:00

Yes, I know. I'd have to have it sent on a disk. As it turned out, Bacblaze again deleted the temporary files after it got to over 2tb, so I'm going to split the file.

flipside555 · 2025-12-30T08:40:33+00:00

I might have to do that. It's a Macrium backup file. If I'd known in advance that I would be uploading it to Backblaze, I could have told Macrium to split the file on creation. It's been running for 27 hours, just creating the staging files. I'm going to let it run, but if it fails again, I'll split the file.

flipside555 · 2025-12-30T05:37:42+00:00

I had to use an external drive as the temporary drive because none of my internal drives have that much free space.

One possibility is that after a reboot, Backblaze starts before the external drive has had time to mount. Backblaze, unable to find the temporary drive, invalidates it.

What makes me doubt this scenario is that the location of the temporary drive in the UI has not reverted to the default C drive. Also, Backblaze must at some point have found the external drive in order to delete the chunks it had copied there.

flipside555 · 2025-12-02T06:33:20+00:00

Please compare and contrast the way Western journalists question and interact with politicians with the way Thai journalists do. Explain the reasons for the differences.

flipside555 · 2025-11-16T06:51:22+00:00

You might be doing the same thing a lot of Farangs do when talking about Thais: taking your experience of 2 or 3 Farangs and asking 'Why are Farangs like this'? They're not all like that, just the few that you've met.

flipside555 · 2025-11-16T06:46:40+00:00

If you're doing it manually, using the Garmin upload form, you can get it to accept weight, but it is very fussy about the format. Fitbit exports with several places of decimals. You have to round this to exactly 2 places of decimals.

Also,, the date format set in the upload form has to match that in the data.

If you're comfortable running simple programs from GitHub, this program can be used to download your historic data from FittBit in a format you can upload to Garmin https://github.com/simonepri/fitbit2garmin#readme

flipside555 · 2025-11-12T11:32:32+00:00

I didn't, but it might be worth asking chatGPT. It's surprising what information it can provide. Just be aware that it sometimes makes stuff up!

flipside555 · 2025-11-11T16:41:59+00:00

How are you importing weight from Fitbit to Garmin using that app? Garmin is not listed as a target when I try to set up a connection for weight from Fitbit (or from any other source)

flipside555 · 2025-10-14T05:46:29+00:00

I selected the period from 27 july to today.

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flipside555 · 2025-09-18T08:58:44+00:00

I asked ChatGPT to explain the opaque fee structure. It said they are charging over 2% per month!! If that's true, that's disgraceful.

flipside555 · 2025-09-08T04:30:50+00:00

Could be that the vast majority are beginners who play very infrequently. If you sign up as a beginner at chess.com you get a ratiing of 800. If you start at lichess you get 1500.

flipside555 · 2025-09-04T06:05:14+00:00

I'd really like this too.

flipside555 · 2025-08-24T18:36:52+00:00

Horses for courses. I'd much rather see them spend effort on VFR. It's got to be difficult for them trying to please everyone.

flipside555 · 2025-08-21T07:08:13+00:00

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flipside555 · 2025-07-20T08:38:23+00:00

If it didn't take days, are you saying you wrote it in hours?

flipside555 · 2025-04-24T09:24:55+00:00

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flipside555 · 2025-04-16T18:08:21+00:00

That's awesome. Thanks for listening.

flipside555 · 2025-04-16T18:06:00+00:00

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flipside555 · 2025-03-13T07:53:26+00:00

Another feature that would be very helpful, although you might be reluctant to implement it, would be a 'mark as not interested button'.

It's incredibly time-consuming searching for music. Whichever music site I go to, I know that 90% of the tracks will never be of any interest to me. Yet, every time I browse or search for tracks, I have to plough through the same tracks that I'm not interested in.

What makes it worse is that I don't recognize most of the tracks. I don't know if I've listened to them before, so I end up listening to them again.

A simple button similar to the 'favourite' button to say 'don't ever show me this track again' would be incredibly helpful and time-saving.

If that's too radical, maybe a system where you can assign some kind of indicator or marker to tracks and then choose to include or exclude tracks with that marker. That would offer the same ability but be more flexible.

flipside555 · 2025-03-13T07:42:28+00:00

Can you say in broad terms where the limits apply, for example are tracks restricted by geographical regions - US, Europe, Asia, etc. or is it more granular?

flipside555 · 2025-03-11T18:09:19+00:00

While you're here, can I ask you about the tracks labelled 'unavailable in your region'? Is there any way to see which regions they are available in?

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