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 us
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 w
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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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 !C
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
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 ne
There was much discussion about a year ago about the cache performance on
RISC OS, and there were some code changes, but I would like to add the
results of some investigations of the Netsurf v3.4 cache on my Iyonix,
running RISC OS 5.23 (11 Oct 2015).
In the past I had problems with the cache taki
