[Rhodes22-list] computer space question clarification

[Wally Buck]

Ed,

Actually duplicate data or application files do not slow down your computer 
much at all if any.  Full hard drives are slow because their is no room for 
swap files or virtual memory. It doesn't matter if the drive has five copies 
of every file or one. Full hard drives are slow hard drives. Deleting 
duplicate data files will not speed up your computer unless your hard drive 
is too full for swap file to run. Running Applications, scripts, applets, 
spyware, virus, worms, trojan horses, and so on slow your computer down.

Also if the data is stored on a fragmented hard drive things will run slow. 
This is solved by defrag utilities.

In any case you do want to delete duplicate files to create room on your 
hard drive. I have not used any software that does this so I can't offer any 
specific help in cleaning up your mess. :-)

Moving forward you probably have figured out that a good file storage system 
is important. If you store files the same haphazard way on your new system 
you will have the same problems.

Wally


>From: "ed kroposki" <ekroposki at charter.net>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] computer space question clarification
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:11:09 -0500
>
>Rummy,
>	My hard drive date is saved in a huge commingled file.  I need a
>computer program to separate the duplicate files.  Doing it file by file
>takes hours, days.  That is the way I done it in the past.  But there
>are programs to do this today.  I am asking if anybody has used such a
>program with success and without catastrophe.
>       Keep in mind that all those little files and duplicates slow down
>the operation of your computer.  I am probably going to get a new
>computer and larger hard drive.  But until then I want to make what I
>have more efficient and give me a few more weeks of hard drive space.
>Even if I get a new 4 gig speed processor with parallel processing, this
>trash will still cause problems.
>                                  Ed
>
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>
>Ed,
>When you reinstall a hard drive, you have to reinstall the programs and
>only
>take the data you want to save from your old drive source (CD or DVD or
>back
>up tape drive or whatever).
>If you need new drive, go to pricewatch.com
>
>Rummy
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