ram Drive ?

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ram Drive ?

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I need to implement a RAM Drive across platforms (xp,vista,win7). The Drive will hold a document securely in que and if the user crashes the system the drive ends along with its que.
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You can a free utility like ImDisk to create a RAM drive:

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk
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Re: ram Drive ?

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marklonardo wrote:I need to implement a RAM Drive across platforms (xp,vista,win7). The Drive will hold a document securely in que and if the user crashes the system the drive ends along with its que.
If the system crashes, don' you lose everything in a ram drive? Its volatile memory after all.

Also, true ram drives typically require a device driver and administrative access to install them.

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true, but that is the goal. I want to encode/decode large pdf files in a ram disk to speed up the process. If the user crashes the system they will not have access to the decoded document which is a plus for protecting the document. The software will run on company laptops so I can gain access to rights as needed. Right now I decode the files in a folder on the users hard drive then immediately delete it after opening it which works but large documents are slow to open. I will investigate imdisk, the command line tool might do what I want. Thanks for your help.
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