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jacatone · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 302

I use WinXP Pro on my laptop and the latest version of PL on a flash drive. When I'm running PL in memory, where are all my changes being saved, on my flash drive or the HDD itself? Thanks.

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 745 Location: Pecos/ Texas

When you were prompted to make a save file. You were the one who pointed to where you wanted a save file to be made. So kinda funny you ask a question only you can answer.

My best guess is it is on the pendrive. Not the internal hardrive. Look in /mnt/home to see if on pendrive I guess.

Here is a link to my screenshot on my Acer Aspire one zg5 running puppeee showing my save files in /mnt/home on sd card flash drive. Then moving it over
(copying) it as backup onto windows drive in case I get a corrupted save file.

http://smartestcomputing.com.ipbhost.com/uploads/monthly_07_2011/post-1239-0-03280700-1312155234.png

Sylvander · Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 04:23 Post subject:

1. In my own case...
I chose to make/hold my pupsave files on a dedicated ext3 partition that fills my PC's 2nd internal HDD.
i.e. This 10GB internal HDD holds ONLY Puppy Linux pupsave+SFS filepairs, each pair matched to their Puppy.

And I boot using any one of a stack of 7 "live" Puppy CD-RW's.

And I have edited the isolinux.cfg file included in the various suitable ISO files used to make the CD's...
So that the pupsaves on the internal HDD are treated as though pupsaves on a Flash Drive.

2. By doing this...
(a) I get the advantage of the speed of loading from the pupsave...
That is normally got when using a pupsave on an internal HDD.
A pupsave on a Flash Drive does not read/write so fast as a pupsave on an internal HDD.

(b) I'm then able to still gain the advantages to be had when the pupsave is held on a Flash Drive.

(c) For example, I can reconfigure the Puppy so it doesn't ever auto-save the session during the session.
Instead, I can choose to either save manually at a moment that suits...
Or not save at all during the session.

(d) Then I can make a simple code change, so that I'm offered the option at shut-down/reboot "to save or not to save".

3. Do you see how your choice of where to make/hold the pupsave can be SO important? Very Happy

mahaju · Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 08:48 Post subject:

I am quite sure that by default it goes to the flash drive
you can check whether the .sav file is there or not in your flash drive from Windows XP

L18L · Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 09:32 Post subject: Where is everything being saved?

Ask your puppy:

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

am I wrong to think that /mnt/home is always the location of the savefile? (or at least the savefile in current use)

L18L · Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 13:05 Post subject:

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807