[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Marcus Daniels]

Maybe indexing by the system or Outlook, or a large swapfile.   If you suspect something is gone bezerk fire-up task manager and watch what is happening. 
Indexing might asymptotically reach a maximum but had not because you had run out of space.

On 10/12/18, 11:34 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

    Ok, folks, .... the mystery continues. 
    
    Of the 12 G I freed up on my computer moving stuff to the external HD and deleting stuff AND deleting the trash AND cleaning up system files, repeatedly, all but 5 G had been replaced 24 hours later!  I had done nothing on the machine in the meantime but answer email.
      Are you SURE that there is no way that some program has gone berserk an is busily cloning stuff on my HD?  Are there any programs that are prone to that sort of thing?  Outlook?  Firefox?  
    
    Just double checking. 
    
    Nick 
    
    Nicholas S. Thompson
    Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
    Clark University
    http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
    Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 9:44 PM
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    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
    
    How about $10 a gallon gas and $2000 / month rent?  I'd settle for that.
    
    On 10/11/18, 12:14 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
    
        Thanks, Barry, 
        
        But we Puritans think that currency inflation is one of the wages of sin, and if we spend less money, the world will returned to an earlier State of Grace.  I still remember 25 cent gasoline on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley.  That's what gasoline SHOULD cost.  
        
        Nick 
        
        Nicholas S. Thompson
        Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
        Clark University
        http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan
        Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:36 PM
        To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
        Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
        
        This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of, thanks to inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood, “dimes”.
        
        --Barry
        
        
        On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote:
        
        > I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer.  It seems a mortal 
        > injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul.  But perhaps it's 
        > time to suck it up?
        >
        
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