Simple Feature Request

[EasyG0ing1]

Hello,

It would be nice to have the option of specifying the amount of RAM to use for the disk in Gigabytes as opposed to just Megabytes.

Nice program by the way - very handy!

Thanks,

Mike

[imothee]

Have added a dropdown to let you toggle between MB and GB on the NewTmpDisk window in https://github.com/imothee/tmpdisk/releases/tag/v2.0.6-alpha
Would love some extra eyes/testing before I release to the main release channel.

[EasyG0ing1]

@imothee Thank you! I'd love to test it, but how do I compile swift code? I've worked heavily with Java and C++ but never Swift. I do have the xcode command line tools installed.

[imothee]

Hi @EasyG0ing1 - I put an alpha release of 2.0.6 up at https://github.com/imothee/tmpdisk/releases/tag/v2.0.6-alpha that includes the disk size changes. You should be able to download and install the new App (and it will autoupdate to the release branch when the new main version is published).

[EasyG0ing1]

@imothee - You know I generally consider myself to be somewhat intelligent but right now this isn't making sense to me ... this is what I see at that link and when I download the file all I see in it is source code ... am I missing something?

[imothee]

Hey @EasyG0ing1 - sorry, not sure what was going on there. For some reason Github said the dmg was corrupt. I re-uploaded the dmg and I can download it at the moment.

[EasyG0ing1]

@imothee - Well thank goodness for that, cause I was beginning to think I was losing my mind ... lol .. but that did the trick. Installed and so far working perfectly.

I suspect, that your software is basically just a GUI interface that sets up the RAM drive then once it's set up, it's not connected to the drive at all ... so like a front end for what would otherwise require terminal commands.

Am I correct in that regard?

And it's working perfectly. I just love running Windows virtual machines out of ram drives ... something about doing that is very satisfying. lol

[EasyG0ing1]

@imothee - After using the modified version for some time now, The only VERY MINOR issue I would comment on is that lets say I create a disk that is 16GB using the new GB option. When I open the program again, it fills the text box with the number 16 but then it defaults back to MB so that if I change it to GB its only a small number that I then need to go back and change to 16.

I realize that its a minor thing, but Im not sure what your personal standards are in terms of the aesthetics in usability for the end user so I thought I would mention it just in case you think something like that should be addressed.

[clickerpw]

can you add
1 "default disk name" tmp or temp
2 default size 10%
or use last used config

[EasyG0ing1]

I think I would have to say that if we're getting into default names, then that should be defined in a preferences pane and not set to a static name that is always the same for all users. Perhaps even a default size as well should be a settings option.

Wish I knew Swift, I'd write it myself and send a PR if I did.

[clickerpw]

dear
i found another way

1 make txt file with this
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAM Disk' hdiutil attach -nomount ram://20971520
killall Terminal
2 rename file to ramdisk.command
3 make this file executable. from terminal command - chmod +x ramdisk.command

in this example will be create 10GB volume .

на русском - копируйте данный текст в текстовый файл и сделайте его исполняемым. потом просто запускайте кликнув на него.

[EasyG0ing1]

@clickerpw - tmpDisk has an "auto create at startup" checkbox ... and its usually faster to find an app than it is to find a terminal commend to execute ...

[EasyG0ing1]

@clickerpw Also, there are command line arguments for TmpDisk ... as per the README,

open -a /Applications/TmpDisk.app --args -name=TestDisk -size=64

Will create a ramdisk named TestDisk and it will be 64 MB in size.