Hi,
I've been following your thread about browser caches & was interested in the comment about defragging for improving HD space, performance, etc.
I haven't defragged my HD (the original 2 GB in my PM 7300/200, OS 8.5.1, 96 MB RAM) in years - now i'm thinking i should. Lately I've noticed a sluggishness in my 7300's performance -- altho I empty my Netscape 4.75 browser cache regularly (if you don't, it really zaps your HD space big time!) and try to get of superfluous files as much as possible, it still seems to suck up HD space and I cannot figure out where the problem is.
make an alias for your netscape cachefolder and put that in the applemenufolder and open it from there - then just drag the cachefiles from there to the trash once in a while, it works as good as emptying the trash from inside netscape but is closer at hand. You can also put an alias of the cache folder in the startobject or shutdownobject folder in the systemfolder and then the cachefolder will be ready for you to empty at startup or shut down.
use a ramdisk if you can spare the ram, I use "appdisk" for a ramdiskapplication, then choose the ramdisk as the place for your netscape cachefile, if you put an alias for the ramdisk in the startup folder it will startup with the boot and your surfin will be faster and the cache will be gone after shutdown.
I use Nortons Speeddisk to defrag or Diskwarrior - another way is just copy all that you have on your hd to another hd, erase the first one and copy it all back, then there will be no defragmentation.
LOVEK
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