[APBeta] An observation - FWIW

[John Switzer]

With continued use, I have found that the open and close times seem to vary
considerably.  This has been the case only true since I moved the data files
from the default location.  Now at times they seem quite fast and at other
times they seem to still be as slow as before.  I am one of those people who
is a stickler for file defragmentation and schedule a full defrag run every
night, so that is not the issue.  Obviously whatever is the cause for the
slow opens and closes are still there.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary A. Ferguson [mailto:garyfe at fergos.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:34 PM
To: 'AstroPlanner Beta Testers'
Subject: Re: [APBeta] An observation - FWIW

If you upgraded from WinXP to Win 7 (as opposed to a clean install,) it is
also very possible that the permissions on the directories are different.
Win 7 DOES NOT do a very good job of reconciling these during an upgrade, I
have found.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
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.
 

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