was takling about tmpfiles - the other ones were not specified ;-)
Benefits: less defragmentation on C:, Speed if on SSD
(17' has SSD in second bay, thinking about exchanging DVD with SSD in 15')
The freedom to just format a play partition and start afresh:
makes sense even if housed on same device. Less danger to the OS...

>Because typically there's one drive on a developer machine, so what's the benefit of being on the d: drive or whatever (although my next machine will have an SSD for OS and temp files, and a hybrid for the rest)? That's especially the case when dealing with a laptop.
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>Plus, when working with ProMatrix, it always installs itself in c:\vpme9.
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>Plus, when working with VSS and then SourceSafe and then Vault, life is a lot easier if everyone uses the same directories for their projects, which dictates the lowest common denominator, which argues for c:.
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>>>Here are 3 lines I have in my config.fpw, which is in the default directory specified by the shortcut (c:\vfp9lib):
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>>>tmpfiles=c:\temp\vfptemp
>>>DEFAULT=\vfp9lib
>>>RESOURCE=\vfp9lib\foxuser
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>>why on C: ? SSD ?