How do I change the location of the disk cache?

It's putting gigs of stuff here:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\SecondLife\cache

but I want it to go to my D: drive where there is hundreds of gigs of room.


Thanks!

Try the Second Life Support Wiki.

I sometimes wonder how you find these things in wiki, i can search for ages not find aaaanything, this thing need to be in FAQ for SL

Woot, it worked! Thanks.

A shame that setting's not simply in the client or the installer.

If you go to the Second Life Wiki at secondlife.com/help and put in "cache" as a search term, the first link to come up is the one Catherine pointed out.

Might you be looking in the scripting wiki instead?

I have a feeling, it may be totally unfounded, but I have it anyway, that the Second Life Wiki's inconsistent name - it has been called the Support Wiki, it's url uses "tiki" and doesn't even have "wiki" in it, the title that appears is Second Life Wiki - and the long term use of the term "wiki" in the context of Second Life to mean the LSL scripting wiki - are keeping the SL Wiki from sticking in people's minds as a place to turn to when they need help with Second Life.

I didn't know there was a "wiki" as when you click on support you get a page full of email addresses and such. ^^

fyi: making a symbolic link works on OS X too ! woot !

( That's a symlink and NOT an alias, aliases don't work. )

You can get other junction utilities besides the Microsoft linkd.exe:

Command line util:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html

GUI app:
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

have used both of the above. One note, with the commandline app (junction.exe), use quotes around your path strings (something the app doesn't show ya), example:

junction "c:\documents and settings\bosozoku\application data\secondlife\cache" "d:\RemoteSLcache"

..would have posted this to the wiki, but I hate the wiki format more than I hate html, which is a lot.

Don't answer that!

I've tried both linkd as well as junction, and both of them say the link was created, and yet each time, the cache folder back on C is filling up!

Yes, both C and D are NTFS. Yes, I'm logged in as the administrator. Runnin' Win2k. Yes, yes, the answer to all your questions is Yes.

This one is bugging me! Any ideas?

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WinLinks and NTFSLink are my favorites.
Try WinLinks
Just install it, then right click on the folder of the new cache, select WinLink->Create Junction from the menu, browse to the location (oh yeah be sure to delete your old cache folder first, then when you are at the location just type in "cache" in the save box and click save. Your done.

Ok, downloaded/installed both of those. WinLinks didn't give me a right-click option. NTFSLink did, and it actually showed the original cache folder being linked to the newly created one. I unlinked, then re-linked using NTFSLink.

The files are still listed in the original cache folder, but also in the new one.. is this normal behavior? (Oh, and yes, I did delete everything in the original folder in between each test!)

Thanks for your help!

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It will show like it is in both places but infact it is in the location that isn't a junction/reparse point. What we are doing is tricking SL.

Example:

Reparse link
"C:\Test" is a reparse point to "D:\Test"
If you open "C:\Test\" it will look and act like it has the contents of "D:\Test\" But the data is really in "D:\Test\". Only an application specificly built to recognize reparse points will be able to tell the difference.

Thanks Strife!

I used WinLinks and followed your directions. Everything is working great. Finally I get that lost gig back on my system drive