Re: Defective continued
Jeff Hinman (ust941@edcca4.bgl.ca.boeing.com)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 08:02:04 -0700
> On 26 Jul 96 at 23:34, Dan Elswit wrote:
>
> > 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.
--snip--
> 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.
--snip--
>
> Warren H. Minix
> P.O. Box 411
> Rockland, DE 19732-0411
Just to clarify - a hard reset is seldom needed unless the Omnigo "hangs" which
is rare. Do a soft reboot as Jon Reinberg had suggested to delete the state
files (shift+on+next).
Jeff Hinman
ust941@edcca4.bgl.ca.boeing.com