On 1/1/2010 7:40 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 1/1/2010 7:31 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: >> >>> By the way, I have four different SeaMonkey profiles. Thus, the 8+ >>> times increase in the size of each profile is indeed significant. >> >> Note also that since SM 2 does not replace SM 1 (it installs as a new >> program, and creates new profiles independent of the old ones), you've >> effectively doubled the space used by the SeaMonkeys even if SM 2 >> occupies no more space than SM 1. Until, of course, you uninstall SM 1 >> and remove its user profiles. >> >> I'm curious what backup system you're using that an extra 13 MB makes a >> noticeable difference. Mine backs up 30 GB every night while I'm asleep, >> and that would be a drop in the bucket. >> > > I'm using the WindowsXP backup ntbackup.exe. In rotation, I do a full > backup of one and incremental backups of the other two: D-disc, C-disc > excluding Windows, C-disc Windows only. I do this weekly along with a > full backup of my system state. > > A full backup of my D-disc (mostly data) is 2 GB. A full backup of my > C-disc (mostly software) without Windows is 3.9-4.0 GB. Windows is 4.4 > GB. The system state is 1.1 GB. I let this run while eating dinner, > usually on Tuesdays. >
And as I indicated before, the issue is not merely backups. The size of just SeaMonkey 2.0.1 seems to slow the changing of profiles. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
