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Thanakar Wheeling

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Join date: 25 Feb 2004

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06-04-2004 18:37

I have two drives in my system. A small 8 gig drive that is my boot drive and an 80 gig drive which is my data drive. I have installed second life on the larger drive because that is where I run all my programs from. All is well and good except that shortly after installing second life I did a routine scan of my boot drive and found several files and folders from SL on my boot drive in this directory. C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\Application Data\SecondLife\ one of the files in C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\Application Data\SecondLife\cache is over 500 megs in size. Is there any way to reduce the size of this file or force SL to keep this stuff on my data drive instead of putting it on my boot drive?

Devlin Gallant

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06-04-2004 21:24

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Pete Fats

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Join date: 18 Apr 2003

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06-04-2004 22:10

I don't this is possible. I run a similar setup and have scoured the ini files for a place to change the temp dir. You can though reduce the file size in your Preferences window under the Network Tab

Carnildo Greenacre

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Join date: 15 Nov 2003

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06-04-2004 22:54

8 GB? You're lucky. My boot partition is only 1.5GB.

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Siobhan Taylor

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06-04-2004 23:10

It's possible, but only if you move ALL of Documents and Settings.

Apparantly there's a way to do this in the WinXP control panel

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Shorahmin Femto

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Join date: 27 Feb 2004

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Just Hi

06-05-2004 08:44

Than,
Thought you won the lottery or something. Nice to hear from you again.

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Masakazu Kojima

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Join date: 23 Apr 2004

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06-05-2004 16:06

If you use NTFS5+ on both drives (Win2k/XP) you can use junction/reparse points.

"By using junction points, you can graft a target folder onto another NTFS folder or 'mount' a volume onto an NTFS junction point."

http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm
http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp

Not an ideal solution, but it works. Also not really recommended if you have no idea what you're doing.

I have C:\Documents and Settings\nex\Application Data\SecondLife\cache\ point to W:\SecondLife\cache\

How do I get this 500meg file off my OS drive?
Thanakar Wheeling Junior Member Join date: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 11	06-04-2004 18:37 I have two drives in my system. A small 8 gig drive that is my boot drive and an 80 gig drive which is my data drive. I have installed second life on the larger drive because that is where I run all my programs from. All is well and good except that shortly after installing second life I did a routine scan of my boot drive and found several files and folders from SL on my boot drive in this directory. C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\Application Data\SecondLife\ one of the files in C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\Application Data\SecondLife\cache is over 500 megs in size. Is there any way to reduce the size of this file or force SL to keep this stuff on my data drive instead of putting it on my boot drive?
Devlin Gallant Thought Police Join date: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 5,948	06-04-2004 21:24 Hands Thanak a pencil with an eraser on it. _____________________ I LIKE children, I've just never been able to finish a whole one.
Pete Fats Geek Join date: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 648	06-04-2004 22:10 I don't this is possible. I run a similar setup and have scoured the ini files for a place to change the temp dir. You can though reduce the file size in your Preferences window under the Network Tab
Carnildo Greenacre Flight Engineer Join date: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1,044	06-04-2004 22:54 8 GB? You're lucky. My boot partition is only 1.5GB. _____________________ perl -le '$_ = 1; (1 x $_) !~ /^(11+)\1+$/ && print while $_++;'
Siobhan Taylor Nemesis Join date: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 5,476	06-04-2004 23:10 It's possible, but only if you move ALL of Documents and Settings. Apparantly there's a way to do this in the WinXP control panel _____________________ http://siobhantaylor.wordpress.com/
Shorahmin Femto Senior Citizen Join date: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 34	Just Hi 06-05-2004 08:44 Than, Thought you won the lottery or something. Nice to hear from you again. _____________________ Time is granular, Object Oriented, re-entrant, recursive, and therefore manifold.
Masakazu Kojima ケロ Join date: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 232	06-05-2004 16:06 If you use NTFS5+ on both drives (Win2k/XP) you can use junction/reparse points. "By using junction points, you can graft a target folder onto another NTFS folder or 'mount' a volume onto an NTFS junction point." http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp Not an ideal solution, but it works. Also not really recommended if you have no idea what you're doing. I have C:\Documents and Settings\nex\Application Data\SecondLife\cache\ point to W:\SecondLife\cache\

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