Power Users & Memory Management
Update: The December 8th Jing update addressed the History Memory issues on Mac. Windows has no known issues. To report an issue, please contact http://support.techsmith.com.
We got an email the other day asking if there was a way to delete everything in the History. Well, this post will show you a "behind-the-scenes" way to do it for power users. In addition it might free up some memory if you're a Mac user. Disclaimer: Messing around with files and folders could screw up your History or lead to unintended consequences, so do so at your own risk!
Now, on to the video, but first a couple of tips:
- Don't be alarmed by the face close-up at the start of the video. It lasts less than 10 seconds. If you need to, just look away until you hear the audio change.
- You can watch the video in full screen mode. (You may want to wait to go full screen until the "face scene" passes.)
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Thanks 4 the tips,
This is a great tutorial. I think that as Netbooks become more prolific this will undoubtedly be invaluable to Win7 machines w/ only 1gb of ram :)
A colleague of mine who teaches, wonders if she should get a separate account for videos she makes available to students, versus personal/family videos. Question - how easy is it for someone who receives a video link (or embed code) to locate and video other Jing videos on ScreenCast? Should she be concerned or not?
Thanks,
Robert
That's a good question Robert. There are around 11 characters in the URL after the /t/ They can be one of 26 capital letters, 26 lowercase letters and 10 digits in any order.
Doing the math, the odds of someone entering a url that matches a particular Jing comes in at 1 in 5.09604728 × 1021 ... or roughly 5 with 1021 zeros after it.
Mike Curtis, TechSmith