Re: Q Re !Scrap

In message <4de14e6679UCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <19f84de14d.Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > *Should* being the operative word - there are a number of badly behaved
> > applications which do leave files permanently in Scrap, and will
> > complain / not work if they are removed.
>
> Terry is not a Pic_Index subscriber, but if he were he would experience a
> slightly longer loading time the next time he used it after clearing scrap,
> as Pic_Index uses scrap to save loading time by storing some
> ready-processed stuff there.

Shouldn't that be stored in Choices?


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