From: jp (jp_at_iwillbefree.com)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 02:48:34 PDT
I am not on this list - please take me off.
Frank Powell
fpowell_at_kscable.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Guyot" <pguyot_at_kallisys.net>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] MP listed in storage folder?
> >I was wondering what the "MP" was listed in the Storage folder.
> >
> >Is this the system "Soup" or whatever?
> >
> >Can I erase it without harm to my settings/data?
>
> The system soup doesn't appear in the storage folder (like the
> Packages soup). Theoretically, in the storage folder, you have one
> icon per soup. But in fact, you can have special icons there for one
> or several soups, the name of the soup doesn't necessarily match the
> name of the icon and so on, so it's technically feasible to have the
> system soup represented by an icon called MP (although I doubt that
> it's the case on your Newton).
>
> I don't have any soup called MP. If you tap it, how many entries do
> you have? If you have only a couple of entries, it's definitely not
> the system soup which contain the prefs for every software you have
> plus a dozen of system entries plus recent entries and modem scripts,
> so you usually have rather more than 50 entries in it.
>
> Also, you can use a soup editor to look into it and see what's there,
> and if you don't need this data, trash it. If some software created
> it, it might as well create it again.
>
> Paul
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