[APBeta] An observation - FWIW

[Paul Rodman]

On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Igor Mikolic-Torreira wrote:

> John Switzer wrote:
>> On the <Edit\Preferences\Other> screen there is an option to move (all) user AP data files.  I moved them from the Windows 7 default location to an Astroplanner folder in the My Documents folder.
> 
> Okay, I changed my setting to in this dialog to a folder in the "My Documents" folder.  Restarted AP, no change in speed of opening or closing plan documents.
> 
> Quit, restarted AP and reset that option to the default location.  Restarted AP, and again no noticeable change in the speed of opening or closing plan documents.

I don't know why this should change anything. The only thing I can think of is that the original files were hugely fragmented on the hard disk (this happens in Windows, I have found). Moving them somewhere else would probably (effectively) defragment them. John: you might want to try defragging your hard disk. IIRC (and it's been a while), MS supplies a defragging tool.

The other possibility is that your security software is getting in on the action when the files are stored in location A, but not when they are stored in location B.

Paul R.