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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted |
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200801210005.29587.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on Mon, 21 Jan |
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2008 00:05:29 -0500: |
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> another point: i dont think ive ever met anyone who even knew what the |
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> Windows temp directory was or even how to find it. no one relies on |
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> that directory to manage their files. |
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Well, you've (virtually, anyway) met one now. |
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Back when I ran on MS, I always made it a point of setting both TMP and |
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TEMP to a dedicated temp partition, a practice that saved my *** at least |
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once, during the IE4 betas when MS pulled a trick that had people ending |
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up with IE's cache index crosslinked with multiple other files, costing |
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folks various documents and/or drivers, etc (there were reports of both) |
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in the process. Since I'd decided IE's cache was temp data and had it on |
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my temp partition (along with TEMP/TMP), the only data it could corrupt |
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was other temp files. =8^) |
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Of course, the other advantage of a separate temp partition was that in |
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the event of a crash, the only files generally open were temp files, |
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thus, the only partition that generally had to be scandisked was the |
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relatively small and quickly scanned temp partition. =8^) |
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So such people are out there... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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