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Use a RAM disk to speed browsing on slower Macs
Authored by: metiure on Aug 30, '04 12:51:48PM

I think there is some confusion with the folder to cache. and my bad english doesn't help either.
The folder to be cached in RAM is ~/Library/Caches/Safari. Not the 'Safari' folder which contains Safari bookmarks.

Another point is that it is hard to make an alias of the cached folder, can say why. Here is how i install the whole stuff, with the previously reported results:

1.create the Ram disk. i usually create a 32 Mb one.
2.move the original cached safari folder to the ram disk (it may help to point out that this doesn't work when i create a folder directly in the ram disk, and point to it with an alias)
3.remove original folder
4.create an alias of the Ram disk cache folder, and copy the alias to the original folder.
5.at this point, I note that the copied alias won't point anymore to the ram disk cache folder, don't know why (may be because it's a copy of an alias?). so i'll have to reselect the Ram disk cache folder and reassign the alias to it (with Get Info)
6.now you can launch Safari, and it should to the trick.

This way i always get the same results. Note however that i abandoned this hints because of the time it takes. i'll get back to it when we have an app with a save image option.

Vic



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