Day 405, Random artefacts

Tidying up random artefacts, putting them in a supermarket carrier bag, from Sainsbury possibly.

Then toting them off to some antiques based low cost daytime television filler programme.

A programme that has 'educational' interludes to count toward the annual hourly requirement of the broadcaster.

Random artefacts like this object, an actual artefact.

I have no idea what it is, I wasn't listening.

My consciousness was still considering the 'messy beast' problem.  A problem where metadata associated with file objects are slow to process during the tidying of data areas when they are re-mounted.

These messy beasts aren't strictly speaking 'artefacts' in the same sense.

The answer to this messy beast problem, or rather the work around, is to set a switch - 

/FastWriteOfMessyBeasts

Which would then accelerate the process of dealing with the metadata on restart.

I didn't set the switch as the problem state has now gone and isn't likely to occur again until next year.

And the random not-quite-artefacts aren't likely to be a problem for us again.  Hopefully.



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