> On 17-Jan-00, Paul Cundle wrote:
>
> > So does anyone know what's going on? Why is there only half of what I
> > wanted in the cache, and why doesn't it flush itself? It's like
> > Microdot really, except at least Microdot only takes a short while to
> > flush. I had to leave Voyager for about 10 minutes :(
>
> I often flush mine by hand. In DOpus, I click on the date column
> label twice (WB View by> date) and drag select (WB marquee select) a goodly
> chunk and delete. If I elly want to reclaim some HD real estate in a
> hurry, I select by size and get rid of all the biggest, usually jpegs that
> I will never want loaded from cache. In general I find the whole idea of
> disk caching more of a nuisance than a help.
A good trick with a web browser cache such as that used by Voyager is
to have a dedicated hard disk partition for it. This is what I'm gonna
do when I get my new HDD. I think about 20mb should be about the right
size.
The cache can then fill it up to the limit and it will automatically
replace old with new files as and when accessed in the web browser.
Oh and if your Amiga crashes while writing to the cache (happened to
me a few times) then it will only invalidate the cache-partition and
not the main hard disk partitions. The Amiga should fix this easily or
if not then Disksalve2 from the excellent Dave Haynie should do the
trick normally. Either way the data on the rest of the hard disk is
most likely unaffected.
-Bridge
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