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gukgn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Kim Guan Ng) writes:
>I currently have Norton Filesaver installed on my Mac and am considering
>buying Autodoubler as I am running out of HD space (who isn't :-) ).
>However, I remember glancing through articles fairly recently saying
>that AD slows down any machine which needs to frequently write temporary
>files such as Filesaver. Is this true, because if the slowdown is great,
>I may want to reconsider buying AD (or give up Filesaver).
>
First of all, I've never noticed a slowdown when the two programs are running.
To the extent that it does occur, it is because Filesaver keeps track of 
deleted files and this includes the temporary files that AutoDoubler creates
and deletes while compressing.  In other words, it is Filesaver that slows down
the machine, not AutoDoubler.  Presumably, this extra activity only occurs at
the time that AutoDoubler is scanning and compressing, which means that nothing
else is running, anyway.  If that's true, then the only noticeable slowdown
would be a delay in AutoDoubler shutting itself down when you start working
again, that is, when you move the cursor or type something after a long period 
of inactivity.

Tom

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Tom Pollard				Department of Chemistry
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