Not Responding

[jbutler9]

Hello all,

 

First of all, excellent program, you all should get a medal.

 

Second, I seem to be having an issue that I think is supposed to happen given the circumstances, but seem squite annoying.

 

I have a 4GB Kanguru USB drive I use for my Ketarin program.

 

I have 130 application, and in total 2.7GB of programs are updated to it.

 

Problem is that when I open the Ketarin program, I immediatly get the Not Responding on the window and it takes a good 60 seconds for the Ketarin program to finally allow me to access anything in order to run an update.

 

I have a very powerful system ....64-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate, 4GB RAM, and I have the device plugged into my USB 2.0 slot.

 

I have another 4GB USB device which is an exact image of the primary Ketarin drive (always have two +plus a backup on the system hard drive)

 

Both exibit the same probelms.

 

Is this expected for having 2.7GB of data?

 

Is there something I can do to try and make the loading faster?

 

I am curious because it seems as if the Ketrain program is doing some kind of "check" when it is loaded. It seems more applicable for it just to read a small xml file that contains the columns, but not the actual data, which I think it is doing when it loads.

 

I would imagine that the only time it needs to read the data is when it actually goes out and updates, either manually or automatically.

 

Well, I look forward to your thoughts, I really would like to make the program open up faster.

[Tomorrow]

Do you have Ketarin set to autoupdate at start?

Do you have any commands running before app updates? (File-Settings-Commands).

What is Ketarin-s database size? (Open Help-About-Database to see).

[jbutler9]

I just did something I should have done before I posted, and that was to defragment the drive.

 

I defragmented the drive (using the Winodows defragment program) and sure enough, the program responds within 5 - 10 seconds now, not bad.

 

At least this will help others if they have similar problems. It is always the simple stuff that get us.

 

to answer your questions:

 

Not set to autoupdate

I have no other commands

database size is 128KB

[floele]

On startup, Ketarin will only load all apps, load their icons and check if the corresponding file exists. On a slow drive, this can take a while for 100+ apps, the size does not matter that much actually.