The only acceptable solution to this is to make path for saving GD index editable so that one could choose where to keep them. Like it's done with Firefox'es cache -- it's not an obvious way to change the path for keeping it but it still exists.
On Apr 4, 7:26 am, Kasra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am bringing up this issue here, since I didn't find any better > location for mentioning this issue. > > I was wondering why size of my windows profile is increasing rapidly > and my C drive is getting full; yesterday I discovered that 4GB > ofGoogleDesktopdata is sitting in the following location: > > C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google > \GoogleDesktop\34dbd5969c71 > > When we are installingGoogleDesktopit is not saying that it is > going to become this much big! it is saying that you need to have > about 100MB of space to install this software. > > Usually the allocated space of C drive with 7200 RPM is limited and it > is mostly for operation system's required space and some other > software applications; there are usually other drives for storing data > which could be used for this purpose, where we have more than 1TB of > space. > > Unfortunately it looks like that theGoogleDesktopdoesn't have any > option to change the location of it's data files from the path above > to any other specific location on other hard drives. > > I understand that the files inside this path include some personal > data from each user and this location was chosen because of privacy > and security reasons (windows NTFS default settings) but what is > making it more interesting is each user of computer is creating > similar size of data for indexing same files of data drives! that > makes it 4GB multiply by number of users! > > thanks for your time and consideration, I am looking forward to some > solutions, > > Best Regards, > Kasra Behbahani --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Desktop Developer Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop-Developer?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
