SL using the user profile to store massive quantities of data

Ages ago I decided it would be a good idea to install windows on a small partition and then install everything else on secondary partitions/drives for ease of re-installation if necessary. This setup has worked fine for years until I installed SL and saw my free space on my C: drive go to nothing quick, even tho SL was installed on a different drive. It seems that instead of using it's install directory to cache files, SL instead uses the C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\SecondLife\cache folder to store massive quantities of data. Personally I had 2 one GIGABYTE files in this folder which destroyed all my free space on my C: drive. As it currently is I can find no option to change the location of the cache files. Honestly I'd much rather have those files on my much faster and much higher capacity SIDE RAID volume.

This setup is annoying for 3 reasons. It's wasteful of diskspace if you have more than one person who uses the computer on different logins who all play SL, surely they could share cache files. When SL uninstalls does it purge this cache file? I haven't tested it but it's doubtful, esp if the above circumstance with multiple users sharing the system, it wouldn't delete other users caches. And finally, like with my problem, those trying to save C: volume space by installing on other drives don't have the option to move this data there.

Am I missing a setting here that I can use to change this? If not, I'd think this would be something that should be added to an update.

No hidden setting, I'm afraid. There are, on these forums, plenty of threads about this that mention a work-around, but it's generally not reccomended unless you really know what you're doing.

This is actually the way most modern written-for-Windows applications work. My email app stores my mailbox in Docs&Settings, my browsers put their caches there, my graphics and video apps store templates and settings there, as do my office productivity apps. etc. etc.

And they all store my information seperately from my wife's - which is a good thing as we have different working habits, patterns and preferences.

The modern Windows machine should actually be run with the C: drive as your fastest drive, with plenty of free space for all kinds of things, including, but not limited to, the OS's temporary files.

Excluding killer files like 10GB video editing projects, most people's user saved data (your Word and Excel files, movie clips your friends have emailed you, software source code, etc etc) can actually sit on their old, slow drive. The days of putting the OS on a small partition and leaving the rest for data pretty much died out with the advent of Windows 95.

Now if only Microsoft would make it easier to shift and default "My Documents" to another drive ...

http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=How+to+move+the+Second+Life+cache


this explains how to move it