Drive Fragmentation
- Posted by newphil82 Jul 06, 2016
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When I started coding ("in the Stone Age") disks were SLOW, and fragmentation was a BIG problem. When we tried to add a few lines to a source file, our editor generated a new file, so that we ended up with myfile(1), myfile(2) ... etc. We junked a BIG batch of old files in one session eventually, to minimize fragmentation. Today, we often forget the fragmentation problem?
Recently, I admit, I often have to make many corrections if I attempt a big Euphoria project. I hadn't realized how messy I'd been making my main drive. It was enough to be annoying.
Now I'm trying out a little USB stick to develop a group of files, whenever I can. At a good point, successful files can go onto the main drive - and the USB stick can be cleared, to "forget the mess".
But I've a feeling that there's a neater way, a clever editor, perhaps? - Phil
