Re:Ask HN: What was the Windows “refresh” button for?
by userbinator on Sunday July 05, 2015 @10:30AM
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The most common use I have of the refresh feature is to observe the sizes of output files (e.g. logs) from a process to see their growth.
If you have a process that creates a file and then writes e.g. several KB to it every few seconds, without doing anything you'll just see the file created with a size of 0. Eventually it does move from 0 but if you want to see the current size you need to refresh.
If you have a process that creates a file and then writes e.g. several KB to it every few seconds, without doing anything you'll just see the file created with a size of 0. Eventually it does move from 0 but if you want to see the current size you need to refresh.