Submitted by WayneK on 2024/11/12 14:49

I'm going to try moving my document files to an SSD to see if it'll help with my long-standing buffering problems.  The program itself already runs from the C drive (SSD) but i have my document files on a regular internal hard drive.  I plan to do this:

1) Move .sndb files and associated SNDB folders to the Docs folder on the C drive

2) Launch files from that new location.

Is that all I need to do?

Wayne

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Hi Wayne,

Yes. You'll probably also want to review some settings in Tools>Options>This Database>Data Storage also

If you have items with links to files, Doc pane content saved as HTML files, etc, which no longer point to the correct path, IQ will try to resolve it when showing that item. It helps if the new paths ressemble the old ones (first attempt is simply doing a drive letter substitution)

An SSD will definitely improve performance !!
(IQ data is saved in a database and as such has quite significant disk IO)

It cleared up all my buffering problems for a few hours but then they slowly started creeping back until now it's buffering worse than ever.

Absolutely no idea why it would solve the problem then slowly revert.

I deleted a description of what's going on because it's too convoluted to get into.  The buffering problem continues, accompanied by a white out "not responding", and sometime leading to a full lock up.  

I haven't been able to do a screen capture because it usually happens on personal items I don't want to display here and every time I try to recreate it on test items, it works perfectly. 

I just rebooted the computer and opened only InfoQube and was right back to the same problem.  So I don't see how it can be a memory shortage.

I found an issue with Windows 11 and the "new" Notepad with multiple tabs. Depending how it is called, it can cause a 10 sec system lockup (for the calling app, that is IQ). I'll fix this in the next version. 

Wayne, does this ring a bell with what you're doing during the "buffering" issues? I suspect not. But the same calling method is used elsewhere, such as when indexing PDF files, when making backups, etc

Food for thought

How do I ?