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After some trial & error, I have been able to get NewsPro to work quite well on a RAM disk. The speed is amazing - eliminating the hard drive bottleneck really makes this thing fly, especially for getting headers.

The problem I'm having is that NewsPro wants to save the .npr files in the data folder, which is on the RAM drive. Needless to say, this causes the RAM drive to fill up very quickly, and tasks are suspended due to low disk space. I've set autosave to 60 seconds, and set the default download folder to a location on a hard drive, and always choose download & save.

How can I tell NewsPro to store all .npr files, and any other temp files on the hard drive instead of in the database folder? Is there anything else I can do to maximize the usage of the RAM drive?

Thanks

currently newspro keeps .npr files in the data directory.

did you try to check file menu->minimize disk accesses on start instead of using the ram disk?

newspro is using memory-mapped files, so if there is enough memory the database will tend to stay in memory. not related to ram disk, if you are using a third party memory accelerator it might be in theory a different case (i don't have any specific data, just a speculation).

the option to set a directory for .npr files in principle would be easy to add.