TIF size

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Hello,

I can't find any information on what the Microsoft recommended TIF size is.
I found a few pages on the web that said the TIF should be set to 50MB.
But they never said anything about why it should be 50MB.
I have a customer who wants to set the TIF to 1,1 GB and I'm trying to find
information and reasons not to set it that high.
What's Microsoft best practice on the TIF size?
What kind of problem would we run into if we set the TIF size to 1,1 GB?
 
Hi Jonis :-)

Try the following and see if it helps:

The TIF size should be set to 50-60 MB. Larger caches tend to be more prone
to trouble.
See "Resizing your Cache"
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

How the TIF works and how to better contol or
manage it. See the information here:

CacheSentry
http://www.enigmaticsoftware.com/

Hope this helps.

Jan :)
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Jonis said:
Hello,

I can't find any information on what the Microsoft recommended TIF
size is. I found a few pages on the web that said the TIF should be
set to 50MB. But they never said anything about why it should be 50MB.
I have a customer who wants to set the TIF to 1,1 GB and I'm trying
to find information and reasons not to set it that high.
What's Microsoft best practice on the TIF size?
What kind of problem would we run into if we set the TIF size to 1,1
GB?
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If TIF is much larger than 50 MB, IE starts to slow down because it's
actually faster to get the information from the Internet than to find it in
TIF. In addition, you start losing the ability to save pictures as anything
but a BMP and you lose the ability to View | Source. Unfortunately, as far
as I know IE still by default grabs some percentage of the drive for TIF and
for large drives this is way too much. 50 MB seems to be about the best.

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Thanks for the information!
It was very helpful.

Frank Saunders said:
If TIF is much larger than 50 MB, IE starts to slow down because it's
actually faster to get the information from the Internet than to find it in
TIF. In addition, you start losing the ability to save pictures as anything
but a BMP and you lose the ability to View | Source. Unfortunately, as far
as I know IE still by default grabs some percentage of the drive for TIF and
for large drives this is way too much. 50 MB seems to be about the best.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
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