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 A bunch of scripts to manage a RamDisk on your mac.
 
 
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 Why use a RamDisk?
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 To cache the shit you want to fly fast across the fans :D or, have a look at
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         	Uncached Write	4954.97	1586.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
         	Uncached Read	7848.65	1456.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
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 What do I use it for?
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 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011010204203424
 
 
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 How do I use this?
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 First, get this done - http://www.bombich.com/rsync.html
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 in to see a RamDisk mounted in Finder.
 
 
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 How do I disable this?
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 Say you have Rambola in ~/Applications/Rambola, do this on a terminal -
 
     ~/Applications/Rambola/disable.sh
 
 
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 How do I update to latest version?
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 I haven't figured out a clean way yet. This might make you lose the changes you
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 Logout and login back to make latest script work.
 
 
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 How do I change the RamDisk size?
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 Get into Rambola's folder, open helper.sh under src & change the number there -
 
     RAMDISK_SIZE=1024 # Size in Mega Bytes.
 
 
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 How do I retain RamDisk data?
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 By default Rambola keeps a synced backup into ~/Library/CachesSnapshotRamDisk.
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 Rambola also syncs the backup every 45 minutes in background.
 
 
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 Have I tested that?
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 I've tested that while development, but I do not guarantee anything. So, do test
 it out before copy-&-symlinking anything precious into the RamDisk.
 
 
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 How do I figure out what's happening in the background?
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 Open OS X's Console (fire from spotlight, or Applications->Utilities), and
 just filter for Rambola to see what happened and is happening.
 
 
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 How do I disable the 45 minute syncs running in background?
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 Get into Rambola's folder, open helper.sh under src and change -
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     TIMELY_BACKUP=no
 
 
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 How do I change the time period for automatic background syncs?
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 Get into Rambola's folder, open helper.sh under src and change the number
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 let SAFETY_BACKUP_INTERVAL=45 # backup interval in minutes
 
 
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 Does it support multiple users?
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 Once enabled, it should work for every user. Though I haven't tested it out.
 
 
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 Why was this created?
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 Uh, I assumed QuickSander's sweet app Cache2RAM [2] to be too sweet to retain
 things on logout/restart/shutdown. Alas! I lost a bunch of good things I cached
 and had to modify to bend it to my own needs.
 
 
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 Why is it named Rambola?
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 Uh, I dunno, maybe 'cause ramona bambola is a bit too hot on tv.