QuotaNotify

A Windows system tray applet for notifying the current user when they are nearing their quota limit.

Created to try to stop my users filling their home directories, which causes merry Hell with my ZFS based storage.

Configuration

QuotaNotify can pull its configuration from config.xml in the install directory and/or the Windows registry. Settings defined in the User's registry hive override the local machine's registry hive, which overrides settings defined in config.xml. If no settings are defined in either the registry of config.xml, QuotaNotify will use its default values.

Settings

Initial Interval

How long to wait (in milliseconds) after application start before first check.
Default: 5000 (5 seconds)

Check Interval

How long to wait (in milliseconds) between disk checks.
Default: 300000 (5 minutes)

Warn Percent

Warn when available space on a monitored drive is below this value (percentage of drive).
Default: 10

Warn Below

Do not warn if available space is greater than this (in bytes). Stops low space warnings for large drives/quotas where a low percentage can still provide adequate storage (i.e. 10% of 10G).
Default: 104857600 (100MB)

Warn Message

A custom string to add to the warning dialog.
Default: none

Obsess

Notify user of low space even if free space is not smaller than during the previous check; to annoy the Hell out of users who ignore the first warning >:)
Default: false

Drives

List of drive letters to monitor.
Default: H

XML

Example

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<Config>
    <initialInterval>5000</initialInterval>
    <checkInterval>300000</checkInterval>
    <warnPercent>10</warnPercent>
    <warnBelow>104857600</warnBelow>
    <warnMessage>It is better to clear space now than to have a save operation fail because you have no space left.</warnMessage>
    <obsess>false</obsess>
    <Drives>
        <Drive letter="E" />
        <Drive letter="Q" />
        <Drive letter="U" />
    </Drives>
</Config>

Registry

Per machine registry keys:

Setting	Registry Key	Type	Notes
Initial Interval	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\InitialInterval	REG_DWORD
Check Interval	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\CheckInterval	REG_DWORD
Warn Percent	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\WarnPercent	REG_DWORD
Warn Below	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\WarnBelow	REG_DWORD
Warn Message	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\WarnMessage	REG_SZ
Obsess	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\Obsess	REG_DWORD
Drives	HKLM\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\Drives	REG_MULTI_SZ	One drive letter per string

Per user registry keys:

Setting	Registry Key	Type	Notes
Initial Interval	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\InitialInterval	REG_DWORD
Check Interval	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\CheckInterval	REG_DWORD
Warn Percent	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\WarnPercent	REG_DWORD
Warn Below	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\WarnBelow	REG_DWORD
Warn Message	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\WarnMessage	REG_SZ
Obsess	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\Obsess	REG_DWORD
Drives	HKCU\SOFTWARE\AmalgamStudios\QuotaNotify\Drives	REG_MULTI_SZ	One drive letter per string

Change Log

1.2.1

• Fix bug which causes application to error when the Drives registry key contains an empty string

1.2.0

• Add support for per user settings
• Fix bug which causes application to crash if required registry keys are not present
• Change registry key path:
  • Change Amalgam to AmalgamStudios
  • Add QuotaNotify to path