You do not remember correctly. What I said (if I am remembering correctly) is that you need at least the size of your memory free and then some. This is because your OS will page out your memory into virtual memory, which is just a disk cache. But other apps also need room to grow for other things. I have always maintained that 10% is a red line you should never cross without risking damage to the OS or other apps data.
Bob S On Jul 24, 2015, at 08:19 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode