As you may know if you have been following my posts about various weird behaviours I have been seeing, a completely fresh install was suggested. I took the uninstall option to save all settings. The latter does not work so it was just as well I took the precaution of screenshotting my preferences
On reinstall only a few options were remembered. I had to go through capture and editor preferences and reset everything manually. If I had not taken screenshots I would have been annoyed.
The following items were particularly galling:
- If you change library location, SnagIt restarts and loses any preference changes you had made on other tabs.
- And it won't accept the new library location being one that was already used, creating a new one instead. I got round it eventually
- Always shrink to fit reenabled, which would have screwed up the resolution on dragged images.Why offer an option to preserve user settings if you then ignore them?
Posted 2 years ago
Paul
Rick Grunwald
Paul
I do wish that vendors (not just Techsmith but all vendors) would recognise the ubiquitous setup of SSD (C:\) for programs and HDD (D:\) for data. I don't want data on my SSD.
Glenn Hoeppner, Employee
Paul
Glenn Hoeppner, Employee
Paul
Glenn Hoeppner, Employee
:)
Rick Grunwald
You can always Make your HDD the primary drive and install windows on that and have the SDD as a secondary
Here is a non recommended and dangerous thing: After getting all the permissions straightened out, move your APPDATA to another drive and hard link back to C: If you lose your data drive you probably can't boot but you could consider linking certain FOLDERS to another drive in this manner
I I have done this on a limited basis. NOT TESTED but you should be able to move "C:\Users\Rick\AppData\Local\TechSmith\Snagit" to E:\settings\snagit and go on as usual
Paul
I don't have an issue with the performance of my HDD, none at all. My issue is that vendors give us little choice over where to place the data their app produces. TechSmith is not alone in this. I frequently have to arm wrestle apps to get data where I want it. It's my PC, I think I should decide.
Joe Morgan
Perhaps you just want to store the data on your M or G drive for "Whatever Reason"
I edit a lot of videos and almost all of my source media is stored on my "D drive {All Media}" I call it. Why? Because that drive can transfer/send media to the my Video Editor Programs/Photoshop etc while the C drive is free to do other tasks.
Your Drives are simply transferring information to your RAM memory for processing.
My M drive is where all my Renders are Written to. So it can spin at it's top speed of 7200 strictly to write my new video.Uninterrupted by me surfing the web.
Glen's solution of a bigger SSD doesn't fit into my scenario.
Who's going to buy a 4TB Samsung for $1,900 so they run SnagIt on there C drive anyway?
What's the 30 TB model going to cost? $10,000.... $15,000
I sure hope you were joking Glen. You didn't say LOL or just kidding.
Yeah, ALL Programs need to let you store the data they create .ANY PLACE YOU Chose on your computer.
Rick Grunwald
But you can get a 5 TB HDD for about $80 and run that as your C: drive with your data on the SSD if I understand you correctly
Joe Morgan
2TB hybrid 7200 rpm c drive.
A second 2TB standard 7200 rpm drive.
A 1TB 7200 Drive
And an external 2 TB drive that is not as fast.
I can load several GB of video files into Premiere Pro's timeline very fast. I don't have any bottle necks regarding disk speed that I'm aware of.
Granted, most of my programs don't fire up in the blink of an eye.Just the ones I use the most often due to the hybrid drive. But when I open a program, I'm usually using it for a long time. I can wait 60 seconds for one to fire up if need be.
Glenn Hoeppner, Employee
Sorry, I wasn't trying to minimize the user request here in any way.
Paul
Paul
Joe Morgan
Subtle humor has practically died.That's a shame.
I apologize to you Glen, I wasn't thinking that one through. That was actually pretty good. I'll skip the traditional three letters if you don't mind.
Rick Grunwald