Auto Doubler Summary

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 13:47:15 EDT From: wse@matahari.dfci.harvard.edu (William Edwards) Subject: Autodoubler Problem SUMMARY: I went to Stacker Thanks to everyone who responded. As you'll see from the attached mail, there was some skepticism about disk-level auto-compression, though one person was using Stacker without any problems. One person suggested a new disk drive, which I am too cheap to buy at the moment. I went ahead, installed Stacker and got rid of Autodoubler. This eliminated the mysterious spinup problem, *and* gained me disk space, since Autodoubler was not compressing my System Folder. So far so good. Here come the messages: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Original posting: I am about to go this route, and was wondering if any have travelled it before me. I am about to dump Autodoubler (2.0.3), which is spinning my Powerbook drive up every thirty seconds, and which is incompatible with Quicken 4.0 and macBible 3.0. I'm running Stacker on my HP 95, and it just seems to work. I want to try it on my PB 100 8/40, and Classic II 10/40, both running System 7.1 (lots of system extension). Please respond via email with any comments on Autodoubler vs. Stacker, as well as going from AD to Stacker, and I will summarize. Thanks! Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 17:08 EST From: Don't Panic! <ABRODY@vax.clarku.edu> Subject: compression programs (A) To: wse@jimmy.harvard.edu X-Vms-To: IN%"wse@matahari.dfci.harvard.edu" Mr. Edwards, In response to your comp.sys.mac.digest post about Stacker: I have not worked with Stacker, but I do know a thing or two about compression programs. If a compression program is driver level compression, avoid it! Driver level compression programs have the worst kind of crashes when the hard disk crashes. Stick to file level compression. In either case make sure that you have everything you use backed up frequently. I currently have Autodoubler 2.0.3 (control panel), and have made an alias for it to my desktop. Anytime I worry that it is running the hard disk too often, I open it and click on the Automatic Compression checkbox to turn it off. When I want it on again I click it back on. Also use the When option to make it only turn on when you move the pointer to a corner of the screen. That way you are in control of the time it compresses and when it doesn't. Both methods still allow for already compressed files to load. Also you can use the Autodoubler Utility Autodoubler Internal Compressor that came with the package. This allows you to use many large files (like Quicktime) when they are still compressed. My copy of Quicktime which was 962k is now 560k. It always runs fine. Hope this helps. P.S. Superdoubler is now available from Symmantic. It includes the latest version of Autoubler Diskdoubler and Copydoubler. Sincerely, ABRODY@VAX.CLARKU.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 03:01 EST From: Don't Panic! <ABRODY@vax.clarku.edu> Subject: Re: com…