Riddle me this - SL cache issue

I was just combing through my hard disk for excess data, snipping out a gig here, a few hundred megabytes there and about... when unexpectedly I came upon a monstrous lump of seemingly disposable files in C:\Documents and setting\MyUser\Application data\Secondlife\cache

Nearly five gigabytes of data there!

And yet as I probe over and look at Secondlife I find myself reloading the same textures over and over, redownloading the same objects, the same images and data every time I move around.

So I have to ask, why in heavens name when SL functions the way it does, does the cache accumilate such enormous stores of data? Or why doesn't it use that store? There must be a better way to do this.

wait till you get to :
C:\Documents and setting\'MyUser'\Local Settings\Temp\
directory SL leaves every install you ever did in there 25megs each...
-LW

That's outrageous! I've been here no time at all and there are 9 of the bloody things.
Surely cleaning up after an install is an elementary procedure?

Download a program like Crap cleaner, makes it easy to clean those hidden places without knowing anything.

I think the cache got that big because every install leave the old cache, but does not count the old and adds another cache limit (which most set a 1G), and so on and so on.

But I added -purge to my Secondlife shortcut so cache cleared every time I run, and then I run crapcleaner atleast every other day, so I never see that junk grow.

Wow, that is rediculous! Supposing that each one of these little SL-iconified programs is an install package, I have 30 of the darned things piled up in here. With all the other junk in this folder, say goodbye to another 750 megs of digital trash.

THANK YOU. Thats going in right along with -multiple now. It'd be good to see a list of switches like that and what they do. Anyone know of a public listing? I'm pretty lame at the wiki.

There is a list of command line switches; it's on the LSL wiki but to find it you would have to know the name the client used before 1.6 (March 2005).

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=newview

Maybe this needs corrected. And updated. Some of those switches lack descriptors.

Very good stuff in any case. I particularly like the -url flag. Something this useful seems like it should just be a built-in part of the login screen, to me. Sometimes you'd like to come in at a place thats neither home nor your "last location". For folks on slow connections or just in a hurry to make it to an event, that'd be pretty meaningful.

Ditto. Might help my laptop's hard drive space issue.

Kamatz Kuhr, that is built in, in preferences, general tab you can turn on to display login choice at the login screen, can be home, last location, or type in a sim name.

I guess what I'm suggesting is to move this menu choice out of preferences and put it on the login screen, alongside your name/password fields, then. Thats too useful to have buried on a menu that (I assume) most people only look at when they set SL up initially. Usually if I'm in prefs I'm lowering or raising my draw distance to save/waste FPS so this had escaped my notice.

Sorry what I am was trying to say, is that option is there, but just have to go to preferences to turn it on, once you do you can choose location from the login screen, right beside where your login name, etc.

In Preferences, general tab, there is a box saying to put login location on login screen, once that is on, then you can choose location from the login screen, without going to preferences.

Excessively helpful, above and beyond the call. Thankee much - I noticed the free space on that drive was shrinking but hadn't bothered to profile it. Now I have a really good idea of why. Time to raze and reinstall.