> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 23:34:37 -0400 (EDT)
> To: ogo@lifelike.com
> From: Dan Elswit <de21@cornell.edu>
> Subject: Defective continued
> Continuing my tale started in my other post, I just downloaded Omnicom and
> poked around on my Ogo a little, looking for 80 or 90 mysterious KB's and I
> found a likely candidate, but I'm not sure. My \GEOWORKS\PRIVDATA\STATE
> directory has about 80K in it, all files created today. I'm wondering now
> what the files in this directory do, and what the effect might be if I was
> to erase them. I'm also toying with the idea of pulling the batteries out
> AGAIN, but I'm afraid I'll lose even more ram at which point the ogo would
> be essentially useless.
I suspect that you have found the culprit. These state files are
created whenever an app is initially run and subsequently modified to
retain current settings (data, window size and location, preferences,
etc.) A hard reset will wipe these clean (as will a "total" default reset).
Hence if you went through and stared every app up to check on it,
there will likely be files created for it taking up storage. It is
therefore a good idea to purge the files via a hard reset, and not
restart apps that one won't use.
In addition since many apps are merely shoved into the background
when they are "closed" a la check mark; they continue to use
resources until they are either exited or are pushed out of resident
memory along with their temp files by another program. Sometimes you
can even see the amount of memory increase shortly after opening a
file manager or setup as things are cleaned up.
Warren H. Minix
P.O. Box 411
Rockland, DE 19732-0411