HowTo: GUI disk buffer flusher

[Jafadmin]

This is a script that you can click with a mouse that will flush the disk I/O buffers with 'sync'
the 'yad' version:

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yad --info --height=100 --width=100 --center --title="Syncing" --text="$(printf "\n\tSyncing buffers to disk ..\t\n")" &
sleep 2
sync
killall yad
yad --info --height=100 --width=100  --timeout=10 --center --title="Syncing" --text="$(printf "\n\t   Sync complete!\t\n")"

The 'Xdialog' version:

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Xdialog --title "Syncing" --msgbox " Syncing buffers to disk .. " 10 40 &
sleep 2
sync
killall Xdialog
Xdialog --title "Syncing" --timeout 10 --msgbox "  Sync complete!  " 10 40 

Here is the script (yad version) with a useful icon you can set to it. Put it in /my-applications/bin, then drag to the desktop

SyncToy.tar.gz

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[greengeek]

Whilst testing the yad pet i got from Mikewalsh i saw a speed difference between the gtk and yad versions and it looks as if the synctoy gz version posted here lacks the "sleep2" that is visible within the code postings for the gtk and yad versions. That must be why i saw a speed difference (when buffers were already empty).

Was the "sleep 2" originally there in the gtk version for any particular reason - when the original yad version did not have it?

Or is is better to be left in for both versions?

[Jafadmin]

Whilst testing the yad pet i got from Mikewalsh i saw a speed difference between the gtk and yad versions and it looks as if the synctoy gz version posted here lacks the "sleep2" that is visible within the code postings for the gtk and yad versions. That must be why i saw a speed difference (when buffers were already empty).

Was the "sleep 2" originally there in the gtk version for any particular reason - when the original yad version did not have it?

Or is is better to be left in for both versions?

Honestly, it's a "comfort" pause so the end user can see what is happening. It can safely be removed if desired.