Hi Ruben, > I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are > also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self
Short Answer: it is just the folder itself. It doesn’t matter how many items are in that folder or how much space those items take up. To the operating system, it’s just another window. Longer Reply about the Desktop: Keep your desktop clean. Your desktop is actually a folder. It lives at (your startup disk, usually called “Macintosh HD”) > Users > (your user name) > Desktop. The difference is that the desktop folder displays it’s contents on your desktop as icons. These are not your normal icons, because the operating system treats every icon on the desktop as a window. So having 100 icons on your desktop is like having 100 windows open at the same time. This uses tremendous amounts of system resources and slows everything down. It’s easy for the desktop to get out of hand. Icons on the desktop are generally laid out in a grid. When the grid fills up, the operating system starts to place any additional icons in the same place, stacking them on top of icon for your start-up disk! So now, the problem is getting worse and worse and you don’t even realize it. The solution is easy. Start by creating a new folder on your desktop. Call it “Stuff to file”, or something like that. Then, take everything on your desktop and put it in that folder. It doesn’t matter how many items are in that folder or how much space those items take up. To the operating system, it’s just another window. Once you have done that, you should notice an immediate improvement in performance. Next, do some house cleaning. Start moving things from the “Stuff to file” folder into the the proper folders in your home folders: Documents, Music, Pictures or Movies. Create sub-folders in those folders, if necessary. Then, just keep track of the amount of icons on your desktop. . Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 18/02/2011, at 12:18 AM, Dark1 <da...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>> Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder >>> or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. > > This explains why every computer my sister uses seems to suffer a huge drop > in performance. She has so much junk on the desktop that there are icons > stacked upon multiple other icons. I'd just like to clarify whether the > contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was > just the folder its-self. > > Thanks > Ruben > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
