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Old January 17th 19, 10:32 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
philo
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Default MS Word 2010 May be solved...more info

On 1/17/19 1:54 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:

The 64 bit version is now installed but it think I found what the
problem really was. I looked at the Office 2010 tool kit and checked
the cache settings.

By default MS Word is set to NOT clear cache on closing and to store
cache for 14 days!

There is also an option to clear cache .

I cleared cache, set the program to only hold for one day and to clear
when closed.

I also told my wife she can run the tool kit to clear cache anytime
she wanted...and to do so periodically after large edits.

She had no further problems yesterday* but I did not make this
discovery until close to the end of her work day.


This could be a OneDrive-style cache.

If you're not storing the working documents in the
cloud, do you even need a OneDrive cache ?

The upload on my ADSL (not a VDSL) is pretty slow,
and working with Cloud storage in the expected way
would be out of the question. A Cloud Cache, keeping
local copies, would be essential to high performance
in such a case.

But if I was keeping the only copy of the documents
on the C: drive and didn't even have a Cloud account,
that cache would likely not be needed.

When you see a cache on something, ask yourself "what's
it for" and "why do I need this". Many times the answers
are obvious (we never question the usage of L1/L2/L3
on our CPU), but don't be tricked into caches that
have no value.

The System Write Cache on my computer, is ********, and is
actually... dangerous. The System Read Cache on the computer
is by comparison, a "free lunch" and one of the better
computer inventions. The first version I saw was on a
Sun Sparc. Then System Read Cache showed up on my Mac. And
finally, it came to Win2K and the PC.* And the Win2K behavior
"was the best" and System Read Cache has been watered down
over the years since that release.

The System Read Cache and System Write Cache, seem
to be disabled when you defragment a hard drive. as
an example of how you "water down" a cache, by adding
exceptions. Uncached reads and writes are available
via software API, so any developer who doesn't want to
worry about what a cache is doing, can avoid them.

** Paul




Cache is kept on hard drive

problem now solved
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