JD wrote:
Always remember visited pages for at least [__] days
I reset it to 7 days.
Remember visited pages for up to [__] days
I reset this to 3 days.
So you essentially told SM to keep a record of visited pages for at
least seven days but no more than three. Well... Maybe you should swap
those two values. ;-)
What SM will actually do with the settings you provided is this: It will
keep a record of at least seven days of history, and the second pref
will be ignored because the first takes precedence. Check with Help, it
says the same (well, of course it does, I wrote that part! :-)).
What is the difference between the above two settings? I'm reading Help
but maybe it's too early in the morning for me to see a difference?
I tried really hard to make Help understandable there. Please read it
again, maybe a little later during the day. ;-)
Remember up to [__] visited pages
This is currently set for 40,000 pages. That seems a little high to me.
Of course SM doesn't store 40,000 pages, it just stores the information
which pages (URLs) have been visited, when, and how often. The data is
stored in a database that can easily handle that amount of data.
Querying the data is no issue either. That's a major difference between
SM 2 and its predecessors.
It's default is to remember forty thousand visited pages? And what's the
difference between this setting and the other two?
Please check Help. Any summary I could come up with here would be less
accurate than what's written there.
I figure this all depends on my browsing habits. For example, I'll
probably visit Amazon.com once a month and I like to type in is Amazon.
I might go to TigerDirect.com every three months and all I need to type
in is TigerDirect. Right now, when I type those in I'm seeing every
TigerDirect web page I've visited in my lifetime and two previous
lifetimes. I'm kidding about that previous lifetimes but I do get a very
long list that drops down under the Location Bar.
The location bar of SM 2 is capable of learning from which entries you
choose. It takes some time (depending on your browsing habits days,
weeks, or months) but it will get better every time you make a choice.
So what would be a better starting place for the above three settings?
Hmm, I had 90/30/40,000 here. Strange. Reset the middle one to 180.
HTH
Jens
