Technical Notes

Memory Considerations

Ways to Free Occupied Memory on Your Zoomer:

Two controllable things which consume extra memory on your PDA Z-7000 are state files and a small memory leak.

State files are used by the system to keep track of where you were in all of the applications you've opened since last resetting the computer. These are what make it possible to return to exactly the same spot in a game of solitaire, maintaining "Home" in the international clock, and leaving you where you left off in a notebook. However, they do use some memory, which you may need from time to time. You may delete state files from the File Manager. Applications for which you've deleted the state files will open in the default file for that application.

Here's how to manage your state files.

You may do a soft reset of your Zoomer. This will recover all available memory, but it will also cause the Zoomer to forget where you were in all applications, including the Home and Destination in the World Clock. See your User's Guide for information regarding Resets.

Tap the Launcher icon on your Zoomer and open Utilities, File Manager. The state files are in the B:[Internal]\GEOWORKS\PRIVDATA\STATE directory. Usually, when you open the File Manager you will see the B:[Internal]\GEOWORKS\WORLD directory. Click on the folder icon in the upper left corner of the window to go up one level to B:[Internal]\GEOWORKS. Open the PRIVDATA folder, then open the STATE folder.

You may delete, by dragging the name or icon to the trash, all of the files for any applications you don't need to keep your place in EXCEPT: zmanager app. (transparent), UI State, and any state files for applications you currently have open. You may also want to keep the wclock app. file to save Home for your World Clock.

The memory leak: It is small, but over time can hide a noticeable amount of the machine's free memory, perhaps a few thousand bytes over several days of use. Try doing a soft reset about once a week if managing your state files does not seem to recover everything it should.

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