Can I force 'eudora.ini' file to stay in memory ?

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Franklin

I downloaded and ran the freeware file monitor 'FileMon' from
SysInternals. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

I saw that when I launched my email program, Eudora, there are nearly
9,000 file operations purely to do with EUDORA.INI.

Is it possible to have a line command or batch command to call a
utility that puts and keeps EUDORA.INI into memory so that the launch
of Eudora is speeded up?

Which utility would be best for this?
 
I downloaded and ran the freeware file monitor 'FileMon' from
SysInternals. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

I saw that when I launched my email program, Eudora, there are nearly
9,000 file operations purely to do with EUDORA.INI.

Is it possible to have a line command or batch command to call a
utility that puts and keeps EUDORA.INI into memory so that the launch
of Eudora is speeded up?

Which utility would be best for this?
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Nope, because it uses Windows INI file routines to read the file and
Windows opens and closes the file as it is used.

If they'd had written Eudora to open the file and read in all the values
at once, then it would speed up, but they read av alue as it is needed.
 
You can not. INI files were not directly designed to be left in memory.
They are loaded whenever the corresponding program/utility is started.

You mighyt consider looking at the possibility of defining a "RAM" drive.
This was a method of set up a hard drive in RAM, usually during the good old
days of DOS.
 
You mighyt consider looking at the possibility of defining a "RAM" drive.
This was a method of set up a hard drive in RAM, usually during the good old
days of DOS.
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But he'd have to move Eudora.ini to that "drive" and add it to the path
and I think Eudora looks for the file in it's own dir. I'm not sure you
can just store it in a path, though.
 
When Eudora is opened it loads into memory all your messages that are in
your in, out, and trash mailboxes and they stay there until you close
Eudora. To prevent what you are experiencing you have to create new
mailboxes and move everything from your in box to that new folder by drag
and drop. You can do the same for your out and trash or just delete the
contents of those. Messing with the ini file will do nothing as Eudora will
just build another one if the original gets moved or corrupted.
 
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