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strange thing, this is:

about a year ago, all of a sudden my comp slowed down immensely when booting. after some investigation, i found out that the cset.ini file was the cause of this evil. samplaire adviced to keep a copy of this file, and so i did after a fresh install.

all was fine. i regularly checked the size of cset, and had to change it only once. a week ago, the computer started off really slow again, so i changed the cset ini file. yesterday however, i noticed things weren't really like before. when checking the cset size it had grown again considerably (normally, it's 4K, now it was about 80Mb), so i changed it again. but after a restart, it took several minutes (about ten, no joke) before i could do anything. the new cset.ini had increased up to 120Mb!!! from 4K to 120Mb in one go, seemed a bit over the top to me, so i immediately threw the pulsar soft off, and now all is at cruise speed again.

lucky this is on my 'general' partition (still had pulsar 2.04 soft, only for web and mp3 sound in background project). so at the moment my DAW is still working fine, and i just am not able to read the Z and listen to mp3 at the same time...

ah well, it would be nice if someone could shed a light, and provide me with a solution.
tata
thanks

Andy,

What about 'rebuild desktop' command? To do it you have 3 ways:

a) force quit the finder while still holding
command+option keys
b) reboot holding command+option keys
c) use Norton Utilities or other utility to do it.

BTW perhaps another thing broke like the b tree or so - once more use Norton Disk Doctor to repare it. Please post your observations after the tweaks

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: samplaire on 2003-01-31 07:57 ]</font>

wojtek, i suppose you mean 'rebuilding the desktop' when still having pulsar soft on the computer and the problems related...
too bad that i can't try your solution then, as i deleted the pulsar folder. it's only when you get into trouble that you realize how little you know. i never heard of this 'rebuild desktop' before. i'll check it out later.
ha well, i hope to finish all my old projects that matter in a few weeks, and then i'm gonna rebuild the computer and upgrade to 9.2.2 and SFP3.1c (still on 9.1 and 3.1a). now if steinberg would come with vst5.2 and noah does what i hope it will, i'll be very happy.

thanks for the tips. i hope i'll never have to use them

On 2003-01-30 13:49, borg wrote:
i suppose you mean 'rebuilding the desktop' when still having pulsar soft on the computer and the problems related...

yes... I wanted t say that. Rebuilding the desktop is in fact reparing the 'desktop file' which is invisible and lays in the root path of your MacHD. It's a pity you've deleted the Pulsar folder already

I had similar problems with a machine at my work (it was G3/333, beige one, MacOS 8.1) running Avid Media Composer. It was terrible as the system disk became full. I deleted some unwanted files (500MB), rebooted and... the disk was still full... After some common emergency things like resetting the PRAM, rebuilding desktop, clean installing the OS (the system hasn't been refreshed for some 3 years!) - with no results - I decided to format the drive. Only then all went right. I hope your situation requires only the 'rebuilding the desktop' thing...

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: samplaire on 2003-01-31 05:49 ]</font>

Hi Andy & Wojtek,
as a rebuilding & reinstalling used PC user I'm reading this with much interest.
Hope you get it done soon, Andy.
Greetings,
Micha

Yes cset.ini on Mac was a pain for a long time. I never had a problem with 2.04a but the problem re-emerged with 3.01. I used to take a copy of the unaffected cset.ini and after say ten sessions I would copy over the current cset.ini with the unaffected one so that it never crashed (if I did about 15 or more sessions without re-installing cset.ini it would always crash with an error type3 I think). SFP3.1c seems to have fixed this and OS9.2.2 is great so get upgrading.