[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Biesinger) wrote in
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>David W. Fenton wrote:
>
>> I hate this, of course, since I want absolutely no application
>> data on my OS volume.
>
>In this case, you could have your complete profile on a different
>volume. I'm pretty sure that the profile creation dialog allows to
>choose a directory where the profile should be created.

Well, yes, but you have to create the parent folder before you
start, because you can't create a directory the profile will live
in, just point at already existing ones. And there's no mechanism
for migrating existing settings to a different profile name or
copying an existing profile as the basis for another. 

And the installation process does not do this, it just creates the
profile for you. 

At least, I don't remember being asked about it at any point.

And, in any event, it's not really the profile location that
bothers me, but the cache location. 

To me, it just seems bloody stupid to maintain separate caches for
multiple users. Just allocate a cache size equal to the standard
allocation per user times the number of users, and then nobody
comes up short. If the multiple users happen to visit some of the
same sites, it would end up being more efficient. 

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David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
dfenton at bway dot net                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc 

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