Have you tried converting to a *freshly formatted* (instead of "made empty") win7 qxl-win file? It could well be that the win7 format is somehow corrupted.
Tobias > Am 06.08.2016 um 11:46 schrieb François Van Emelen > <[email protected]>: > > Yesterday evening I copied my win2_ (my default) to another location and > linked it to QPC2/SMSQE as WIN7_. > I deleted all files and directories with PWfiles. I then defragmented my hard > drive. Conversion to that empty win7_ took more than 23 minutes... not much > faster than before. Lack of space, fragmentation and swap file can't be the > reason why writing to a win device is so slow (imho). Couldn't the design of > the filing system of SMSQ itself be the cause? > > I am not a native speaker ... so the above is perhaps not that understandable. > Thanks for your contribution. > François Van Emelen > > Op 5/08/2016 om 20:17 schreef RWAP Software: >> 'tIt could depend on a couple of things I should imagine: >> >> a) Whether the win file is fragmented on your PC's hard disk >> b) Whether the win file is full so each write it has to be extended first to >> make room >> c) The size of your swap file on the PC and how that is being used (again >> that may be fragmented) >> >> Rich >> >> --- >> Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com >> >> On 2016-08-05 17:11, François Van Emelen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Why is writing to WIN device so slow compared to writing to RAM and DOS >>> device? >>> >>> Converting a 500KB DBF-file (dbase3/foxbase) DBS-file from dos1_ >>> >>> 1) to RAM1_ less than 15 sec. >>> >>> 2) to DOS1_ less than 20 sec. >>> >>> 3) to WIN2_ more than 25 MINUTES >>> >>> Why such a huge difference? >>> >>> François Van Emelen >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QL-Users Mailing List >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List > > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
