Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-13 Thread lists 
In article <1fd5ae6f55@abbeypress.net>,
   Jim Nagel  wrote:
> Several months ago I got fed up with this, and also with time wasted 
> by !Locate searching through all of !Cache.  So on all my machines I 
> made a new directory that comes alphabetically last:   $._

I haven't actually got !Locate so I don't have that problem.

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Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread Jim Nagel 
Richard Porter  wrote on 12 Apr:
> I exclude any cache directories from backups. Ditto Scrapdirs.

When you do a search, however, !Locate so far lacks the ability to 
exclude specified directories.  That's what decided me to move !Cache 
and !Scrap to the very end of the root directory.  !Locate used to 
spend ages hunting through them.  Now I can simply abort the search 
before it gets to the end.


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Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Young 
On 12 Apr 2016  Richard Porter  wrote:

> On 12 Apr 2016 Jim Nagel  wrote:

>> Martin Avison wrote on 12 Apr:
>>> ... problems with the cache taking large amounts of disc
>>> space, and the resulting long backup times for !Boot ...

>> Several months ago I got fed up with this, and also with time wasted
>> by !Locate searching through all of !Cache.  So on all my machines I
>> made a new directory that comes alphabetically last:   $._

>> !Cache and !Scrap and !Newsdir now live there, with appropriate
>> pointers in the old places.  Works well.

> I exclude any cache directories from backups. Ditto ScrapDirs.

Doesn't everyone? :-)

Best wishes,

Peter.

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Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread lists 
In article <485cc96f55.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>,
   Richard Porter  wrote:
> I exclude any cache directories from backups. Ditto ScrapDirs.

Same here, there is no point.

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Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread Richard Porter 
On 12 Apr 2016 Jim Nagel  wrote:

> Martin Avison wrote on 12 Apr:
>> ... problems with the cache taking large amounts of disc
>> space, and the resulting long backup times for !Boot ...

> Several months ago I got fed up with this, and also with time wasted
> by !Locate searching through all of !Cache.  So on all my machines I
> made a new directory that comes alphabetically last:   $._

> !Cache and !Scrap and !Newsdir now live there, with appropriate
> pointers in the old places.  Works well.

I exclude any cache directories from backups. Ditto ScrapDirs.

Richard

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Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread John Williams 
In article <1fd5ae6f55@abbeypress.net>,
   Jim Nagel  wrote:

> So on all my machines I made a new directory that comes alphabetically
> last:   $._

That may well not come last on all filing systems, so no-one make that
assumption.

Jim doesn't specify what FS(s) all his machines are using.

I discovered this when devising a system for ensuring the completeness of
my back-ups by testing for the presence of a specific (last) file or
directory. As an example, SDFS and Fat32fs differ markedly in the order
they copy items elsewhere.

Implications probably not mission-critical in Jim's particular case, but
are in mine!

Best wishes, 
 
John

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Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread Jim Nagel 
Martin Avison wrote on 12 Apr:
> ... problems with the cache taking large amounts of disc
> space, and the resulting long backup times for !Boot ...

Several months ago I got fed up with this, and also with time wasted 
by !Locate searching through all of !Cache.  So on all my machines I 
made a new directory that comes alphabetically last:   $._

!Cache and !Scrap and !Newsdir now live there, with appropriate 
pointers in the old places.  Works well.

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