On 11 Aug 2005 at 8:18, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: > "David W. Fenton" wrote: > > I'd be interested to know if under OS X you guys were stikll finding > > RAM disks helpful with pre-2006 Finale. We had a discussion of this > > a while back and I can't remember what was concluded. I'd have > > thought that OS X's modern industrial-strength virtual memory > > management would have made that obsolete, but I seem to remember > > that some of you were reporting that it still helped (which implies > > substantial inefficiency somewhere in the OS X disk caching > > subsystems). I'd think that this move of what used to be in temp > > files to RAM would finally obsolete the use of RAM disks as a > > performance enhancer (and make it into a performance drag). > > There is a RAM Disk application I've been using with Finale 2004/5 > under OS X 10.3.9 - and it definitely speeds things up. (I can't > remember the name of it at the present time being on a different > computer.) > > It is a hassle having to remember to turn it on before starting > Finale, and then check whether the Temp files are being written to it, > but it's worth it, especially when using large scores.
I take it you don't have Finale 2006? And I wonder if continuing to use a RAM disk with Mac Finale 2006 might be a cause of problems. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
