I see a change is being made to how the client stores cache data. The cache was previously going into \Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\SecondLife\cache
Which was bad for corporations and schools like me that use roaming profiles, since this would mean the SL cache is roaming with the user on the network, being stored on the servers. This reduces both network performance and server backup storage, and was a strike against using Second Life in a business environment. With 1.21 the cache is now being put into: \Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\SecondLife\cache This is a far better way to do it. Local Settings does not roam with the user, and can stay on the computer until the user logs in again, and their account picks up the previously cached data. In my case the local account data gets deleted when roaming users log off (volitale profile) to keep lab computers from running out of disk space due to storing so much old unused profile data from many different users. It would be nice if there could be a centralized "cross-user local workstation cache" for networks using roaming. This would allow a single large cache on the local lab computer that isn't deleted when people log off and can be reused by different roaming students for class lab sessions going to the same parts of the world. A possible shared-cache location might be: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SecondLife\cache Though I believe special write privileges are needed for programs to write data into All Users. Students login using the restricted Users group so they don't have write access to anywhere they want, but programs storing data in All Users have proper write privileges even if the logged-in user does not. - Dale Mahalko / Scalar Tardis ============================== Reference: http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/browser/trunk/indra/newview/llappviewer.cpp 2626 #if LL_WINDOWS || LL_DARWIN 2627 // NOTE: (Nyx) as of 1.21, cache for mac is moving to /library/caches/SecondLife from 2628 // /library/application support/SecondLife/cache This should clear/delete the old dir. 2629 2630 // As of 1.23 the Windows cache moved from 2631 // C:\Documents and Settings\James\Application Support\SecondLife\cache 2632 // to 2633 // C:\Documents and Settings\James\Local Settings\Application Support\SecondLife 2634 // 2635 // The Windows Vista equivalent is from 2636 // C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\cache 2637 // to 2638 // C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\SecondLife 2639 // 2640 // Note the absence of \cache on the second path. James. 2641 2642 // Only do this once per fresh install of this version. 2643 if (gSavedSettings.getBOOL("MigrateCacheDirectory")) _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
