Can NOT move SL cache off main C: drive.

Hello,
I am hoping some one can help me. Since i tested the First Look Viewer I have not been able to move the sl cache off my C: drive. Prior to installing the FL i had moved it safely off my main drive following the instructions listed on the SL website. But as soon as i installed FL i have not been able to move it since. I tried an uninstall of the viewer and that did not work. So please if anyone else has had this issue and fixed it please please please let me know how to do it...it is killing my machine.
MC

Moving the Cache is built into the First Look viewer. You no longer need the instructions for moving the cache from the old standard viewer. Simply go into Preferences > Network and click on the "Set" button for disk cache location.

This has been posted previously, in

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Starting the thread anew in different places does not necessarily help you get an successful answer any faster.

When you moved your cache earlier, was it by following the procedure described in the knowledgebase article at http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=302 , shown below?



Or did you do something else, and if so, what?

Here is an url to a Microsoft page on the linkd.exe program: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524

Based on what the Microsoft article says, if you followed the procedure described in the knowledgebase article, it looks to me like you'd open a command prompt and do:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\LinkD.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\SecondLife\cache" /d

or

Delrp "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\SecondLife\cache"

Note that I have never done this before, so I might be totally wrong.

Can anyone else offer any suggestions?

SuezanneC,

Thank you for replying.

First
as to posting in so many places ...
you will see different replies in each area.
this has been an ongoing problem that not even LL has been willing to help with.
thier suggestion go the thr forums, so here i am.
i have been fighting this now for way to long and am feelign a bit on the frustrated side so I am reaching out in every way I can.

Second
The methode you suggested, I had used the first time i moved the cache and it worked just fine. After installing First Look is when the problems started for me.
I have attempted to uninstall everything and start fresh, and yet the problem has persisted.
The new problem now though is this. After using the fix you suggest, I end up wht 2 cache locations. The original on C:... and the newly created one on E:...
Both locations work and appear to grow and change identically.

So, yes Linkd.exe does work in starting to point to the new location...but it does not stop SL from using the original location. And with the cache utilizing my main C: it kills all my performance greatly. Granted my sytem is modest...P4 2.8g and 1G of ram and a nice video card with 512M of ram...but once SL fires up...openign almost anything else kills my system performance.

So again, I say thank you ... and trully beg your fogiveness for posting in all 3 places...but with 3 million users in SL, I have not recieved one piece of anythign that helps.

Marsha

After you run linkd then both locations will appear to be the same to Windows applications. That's what the junction point is all about. But there's only one physical disk used.

Is it possible you set up the junction the wrong way?

"Is it possible you set up the junction the wrong way?"

Nope... syntex of command is exactly as stated.

Question though ...

"After you run linkd then both locations will appear to be the same to Windows applications. That's what the junction point is all about. But there's only one physical disk used."

Does this mean when I look at the location on C: that I will see the cache grow and shrink like it did before the junction was created. I mean if I look at both locations in Win. Explorer the C: location updates a few seconds faster then the "new" location on my E: drive. but if i am not doing anything in SL and cacheing stops ...they are identical. I had not notiiced this behavior with the very first time i made the junction and prior to testing First Look.

And ...Thank you,
Marsha

When you look at that location in Explorer you are looking *through* the junction.

To see which is actually being used, look at the free space on your drives, preferably using the command line.

Explorer is just taking periodic looks at the state of the folders and showing you what was there when it looked. The timing is not accurate down to the second, or even down to a few seconds, and it may well be looking at what it thinks is C: more often.

As an alternative, if you are using XP, you can move its cache to the other drive freeing up space needed. Control Panel, Settings, Systems, asign each drive with its own cache, or only use a drive other than C, apply, OK and reboot.. then defrag your drives.

Did you try the steps that are supposed undo what linkd did in the first place?

"C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\LinkD.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\SecondLife\cache" /d

or

Delrp "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\SecondLife\cache"