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Mike's Software => Qimage Ultimate => Topic started by: Jeff on June 13, 2014, 08:58:04 AM



Title: A word of warning
Post by: Jeff on June 13, 2014, 08:58:04 AM
Hello.

I think there has been some posts regarding alternative locations for the applications data files.

I have Qimage installed on a SSD, and soon found that it was filling up a rapid rate, so moved the app data files to a partition on a standard hd. P drive

All went well, no problems, until about 3 weeks ago when Qimage started running very slow and was obviously very poorly.

At next start up got an error message - at 066cb817 invalid file name - %s -

No problem, reinstall last update.

Now we all no doubt get used to QI doing all the work for us, so I just accepted the defaults as usual and all was well again :( :(

A few days later I did a search for a specific image, and got no results.  All the data base and gone. :'( :'(

We have had quite a few update this last week or so, and when running one it just caught my eye that the data files were shown as ssd C drive.

A quick check showed a data file now on both C and P drives.

Reinstalled and this time looked what I was doing and made sure data in P was selected, and all is now well again. :-[ :-[

Jeff

   


Title: Re: A word of warning
Post by: tonygamble on June 13, 2014, 09:08:27 AM
Jeff,

Well spotted. I also use a C: SSD.

What 'search' words did you use in Explorer to spot the duplication?

Tony


Title: Re: A word of warning
Post by: Jeff on June 13, 2014, 03:13:20 PM
Jeff,

Well spotted. I also use a C: SSD.

What 'search' words did you use in Explorer to spot the duplication?

Tony


I just looked up the 'Utilities >Migrate application data' in Qimage. then went to the locations in Explorer.

I would add that I think it was a Windows 7 problem.

Jeff 


Title: Re: A word of warning
Post by: tonygamble on June 13, 2014, 03:24:09 PM
And that showed you two locations, Jeff?

Tony


Title: Re: A word of warning
Post by: jana on June 13, 2014, 03:48:05 PM
I hava a similar setup with Qimage installed on a SSD and the data files on a std. HD. No problems whatsoever. Running Win7.


Title: Re: A word of warning
Post by: Terry-M on June 13, 2014, 05:23:13 PM
Two points to make:
It sounds as though some of you skimped on the size of the SSD, mine is 240GB; QU program data is 40GB and the SSD C-drive is less than half full, so no problem there.
Point 2: use QU maintenance facilities under the Utilities menu  for Thumbs and cache.
Terry


Title: Re: A word of warning
Post by: Jeff on June 14, 2014, 07:12:33 AM
Two points to make:
It sounds as though some of you skimped on the size of the SSD, mine is 240GB; QU program data is 40GB and the SSD C-drive is less than half full, so no problem there.
Point 2: use QU maintenance facilities under the Utilities menu  for Thumbs and cache.
Terry

Correct.  Size skimp.

My experience with SSD's up to now is not good.

Their price is dropping, so a future update is to install a big one and start again with a re-install of win 7 and clean system.

Everything working at present but still a bit slow.

Jeff