Psion Teklogix netBook, 32M/64M manual Checking memory use, Which files use the most memory?

Checking memory use

∙To display the amount of memory remaining: select Show disk gauge from the View menu to see the amount of free memory in the System screen Title bar. Tap on this gauge, or select the Disk command from the Information menu to see more detailed information about a selected disk.

∙To see information about total memory usage: select the Memory command from the Information menu.

Which files use the most memory?

Certain types of files use more memory than others.

Sound files can become very large, so you should take care to delete unwanted Record and Voice note files so that they do not use up space on the Internal disk.

When recording a sound, the netBook will allow you to continue recording until the ‘Time available’ runs out. Even if the Time available is zero, the Record program will always leave approximately 100 kilobytes of free memory.

If you find that the amount of free memory is suddenly reduced, it is a good idea to check the size of any Record files.

Agenda files can also become very large. You should tidy your Agenda periodically in order to remove entries; see the ‘Agenda’ chapter for more details.

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What will happen when the memory is full?

When the memory is nearly full, you will see warning dialogs when running programs to indicate that the netBook’s memory is almost full, and there is not enough memory to perform some tasks.

Many of the things you do need just a little free memory in order to work - displaying dialogs, menus, etc. These can fail with a message like ‘Memory full’. Don’t worry though, the netBook will not allow you to use all of the available memory; it will always set aside enough memory for you to close a program or save an open file to a Memory disk.

Files saved on the Internal disk and “open” programs both use memory. So, if the memory is nearly full you should be able to free some memory by closing some programs. You can use the List open files command from the File menu in the System screen to check which programs are running, and then close the programs or files that you do not need to have open.

You can also delete any unwanted files from the System screen, or move files to a Memory disk or your PC to free more memory.