e compress/uncompress process quite a bit if you are doing it to/from the ramdisk.
If you do have documents on the ramdisk, remember to backup them to your hard disk every once in a while, because if you crash or the power goes out, your ramdisk contents will revert to the last time the AppDisk saved itself.
Another good use for the AppDisk is for people using the new PowerBooks. Since the battery life of the PowerBook is extended considerably if the hard disk is asleep, putting applications in small AppDisk ramdisks will cause them to not read from the disk every time they need to put up a window or do an operation. You can generally keep the hard disk asleep while using your program, until you need to save a document to the hard disk. The new "launch on mount" feature makes this even easier, since you can make the AppDisk automatically run an application inside itself when you first start up the ramdisk. And it can also remove the ramdisk when you quit the application that was started up.
AppDisk Options
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The AppDisk defaults to NOT saving its contents, and will warn you when you quit the application that you are about to lose all the files in the ramdisk. If you would like to save the contents of your ramdisk, you can set up the saving options by choosing Setup╔ from the File menu.
After choosing Setup╔, the Save Options dialog will appear. To turn on the "Save" option, check the "Save AppDisk Contents" checkbox. Once you have turned on the save option, you can save the disk co