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Clarence Verge
Your experience is teaching us a lot about keeping our \TEMP
as volatile as possible ... to prevent accumulating 27 Meg
of garbage.
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:27:27 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Hello All;
> About a month or so ago I changed my Arachne TEMP to HD instead of RD so I
> could see what was going on. And then I forgot about it.
> Two nights ago I was using Arachne online and while rendering a JPG I saw an
> error message flash on the screen and then the screen showed about 1/2 of the
> image. I tried it again and saw that the DJPEG32 error message was "Disk full".
> I exited and found I had only 600kb space available in my 100Mb "C" partition.
> To understand how silly this was, I must tell you that "C" contains only
> MSDOS 6.2 plus 3 separate Arachne installs - NO Windows or Linux stuff.
> All things considered, "C" should have no more than 30Mb total on it. :/
> I did a Norton "Listdir" to remind myself what was on there, and noticed
> that it paused a while at \ARACHNE\TEMP.
> Checking ARACHNE\TEMP, I found it contained *27* MEGABYTES of crap - mostly
> ..HTM files. This was collected in about a month of about one hour per day
> use, and I clean cache (F8) religiously before I start EVERY day !
> Here is another interesting bit:
> This is a P90 using MSDOS 6.2.
> It took one minute and 34 sec to delete *.* in ARACHNE\TEMP.
> Now I have about 28 Mb free.
> I can't find what is using the missing 40 Mb remainder.
> Chkdsk and Norton show no lost clusters.
> Does anyone know of a utility that maps disk usage by directory or filename ?
> Thanks.
> - Clarence Verge
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