What does session save when running from flash drive?
What does session save when running from flash drive?
I have xenial loaded on a flash drive. Loaded like a dream and everything functions correctly. I love it so far. One question though; is the auto session save saving my browsing history? Can I read what session save is saving?
You could look at what is in the save file/folder by left clicking on it in the Rox File Manager.Can I read what session save is saving?
However, it is going to look like a copy of the Puppy file system. But it only contains added or changed stuff.
Updating the save.
It adds to the save file/folder anything that has been added or changed since the last time the save was updated
The auto session save, by default, is set to do this update every 30 minutes.
This can be changed in menu>System>Puppy Event Manager>Save Session
If you set the time to zero(0)
It only updates the save when you press the save icon on the desktop and always updates the save on shutdown.
If you also select ask at shutdown.
It will ask if you want to save or just shutdown without updating the save.
Yes browser history goes into the save if the browser is set to save history.
Every browser gives you options how the history is handled.
Look in the browsers preference settings.
When you are running Puppy using a save.
Anything that changes is made part of Puppy when the save is updated.
Before the save is updated those changes are only in memory and not yet saved to Puppy.
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Why you should turn off Automatic Save
Hi rver,
Following up on what bigpup has said, when a Save takes place everything then in Random Access Memory with one exception is written to your SaveFile/Folder. The exception are those temporary files Puppy writes to /tmp. By everything, we mean EVERYTHING: the mistakes you made, the applications you installed which didn't work; and the junk files and malware you didn't realize you were picking up while you surfed the web. Moreover, with the Automatic Save turned on, a power-surge or outage can corrupt your SaveFile/Folder if it happens to be performing a Save when that occurs.
I discuss all the repercussions of turning off the Automatic Save in this post: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 066#974066. But, besides turning it off, there are two things mentioned I strongly recommend: move the /my-documents folder out of /root onto /mnt/home and move the /.mozilla and /.moonchild productions out of /root onto /mnt/home. The cited post explains how: it's easy. By doing so, your browser Bookmarks will automatically be preserved when you make them; as will the word-processing and other data files you create in the my-documents folder.
Depending on how much RAM your computer has, it may also pay to move the .cache files. They are not on your computer for your benefit. They are placed there so that Web-servers don't have to transmit them again. While in /root they are using RAM leaving less RAM for you to do what you want.
Unfortunately, after that post was written it became necessary to build google-chrome and its clones to be run as Spot -- a limited User located either in /root or /home which is another location occupying RAM. As a limited User, files relating to it can't be moved, as Spot can not access the rest of your computer. [Mike Walsh has published an application for easily transferring files into and out of Spot]. But bookmarks and addons can only be preserved by executing a Save.
My preference is to install applications, change settings and load/unload SFSes immediately after bootup and execute a Save before I begin surfing the web. But with Google-Chrome & clones now occupying /root or /home, I'll make a note of desired changes to them, shut down, reboot, then make changes to them and Save before surfing elsewhere.
With Google-Chrome & Clones, I install the addon "History Eraser". You may not want to actually erase your history. But one of it's settings clears cache.
Following up on what bigpup has said, when a Save takes place everything then in Random Access Memory with one exception is written to your SaveFile/Folder. The exception are those temporary files Puppy writes to /tmp. By everything, we mean EVERYTHING: the mistakes you made, the applications you installed which didn't work; and the junk files and malware you didn't realize you were picking up while you surfed the web. Moreover, with the Automatic Save turned on, a power-surge or outage can corrupt your SaveFile/Folder if it happens to be performing a Save when that occurs.
I discuss all the repercussions of turning off the Automatic Save in this post: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 066#974066. But, besides turning it off, there are two things mentioned I strongly recommend: move the /my-documents folder out of /root onto /mnt/home and move the /.mozilla and /.moonchild productions out of /root onto /mnt/home. The cited post explains how: it's easy. By doing so, your browser Bookmarks will automatically be preserved when you make them; as will the word-processing and other data files you create in the my-documents folder.
Depending on how much RAM your computer has, it may also pay to move the .cache files. They are not on your computer for your benefit. They are placed there so that Web-servers don't have to transmit them again. While in /root they are using RAM leaving less RAM for you to do what you want.
Unfortunately, after that post was written it became necessary to build google-chrome and its clones to be run as Spot -- a limited User located either in /root or /home which is another location occupying RAM. As a limited User, files relating to it can't be moved, as Spot can not access the rest of your computer. [Mike Walsh has published an application for easily transferring files into and out of Spot]. But bookmarks and addons can only be preserved by executing a Save.
My preference is to install applications, change settings and load/unload SFSes immediately after bootup and execute a Save before I begin surfing the web. But with Google-Chrome & clones now occupying /root or /home, I'll make a note of desired changes to them, shut down, reboot, then make changes to them and Save before surfing elsewhere.
With Google-Chrome & Clones, I install the addon "History Eraser". You may not want to actually erase your history. But one of it's settings clears cache.