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Esperance DV

Create a RamDisk and store the temporary files.

Version: 2.3.2

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Caused major problems

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Contributed by: Aardy Tuesday, February 14 2006 @ 11:47 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Caused several freezes with applications that want to write to the disk (it wasn't other software as Esperance was the only new install and everything worked ok again after removing it).

The uninstall routine is flawed. It removed ALL my local (not global) preference panes - in fact it just deletes the entire folder. I had to reinstall 10 pref panes back to the home directory (~/library/Preference Panes). I have notified the developer of this fault (no reply as yet, but then it's been less than 24 hours!)

In theory the whole Ram Disk thing is a good idea; I just wished it worked.

PowerBook G4/867 15.2" Ti, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB HD (5+ GB free), OS X 10.4.3, QuickTime 7.0.4

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Caused major problems - vitoarc

My guess is that you didn't have enough free hard drive space for this to work properly, which caused your freezes. RAM disks require hard drive space, and you were barely over the minimum amount of free hard drive space to start. Just a thought.

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Monday, February 20 2006 @ 03:22 PM PST

Caused major problems - Aardy

At the time I had over 6GB free, which should be plenty. Presumably if it uses disk space it's not going to be too much more than the size of the RAM disk itself. If it needs substantially more than that then there's got to be something wrong. Needless to say I haven't got 6GB of RAM installed in my PowerBook!

Still haven't heard back from the developer regarding the uninstall routine. It's not a problem if you're going to keep it on your computer but if you want to remove it I'd advise removing it manually.

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Thursday, March 09 2006 @ 02:50 PM PST

Caused major problems - admin132

6 gigs isnt that much really. if youve got menumeters you can easily see how much swap space osx decides to use, which ran easily run into the gigabytes, and then other apps sometimes use their own scratch files on the hard drive too.

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Saturday, March 10 2007 @ 11:37 AM PST

Caused major problems - rifty000

That is strange. I wonder what applications you are talking about? I have used Esperance for years on all systemns including intel and have never had one problem with it. A timed backup function as an option in the preferences would be nice though.

Rifty