On 12/10/12 11:53 AM, A Williams wrote: > Backing up my /home directory under Linux, I noticed that it spent a few > minutes backing up my Seamonkey Cache. This is *not* time well spent so > I decided to do something about it. > > Preferences -> Privacy and Security. > I checked 'Always clear my private data when I close Seamonkey' and > 'Cache'. Problem solved! All I have to do is leave Seamonkey (which I > do anyway) before taking a backup and all will be fine. > > No. > > Instead of actually deleting my Cache, Seamonkey helpfully renamed the > Cache directory as Cache.Trash[10-digit-number]. Which I then spent > several minutes backing up. > What is the point of this behaviour? The option is under "Privacy and > Security". Just renaming the contents is neither. > > Seamonkey 2.14, the 64-bit Linux version. > > I have had this option set for months at work (Windows 7 x 32) so I need > to see if I have 0, 1 or n similar directories there. Tomorrow. >
Hmm. I did a search of my hard drive and found 206 files or folders with "cache" in their names. I thought I had set all four of my SeaMonkey profiles to use the same cache folder, but I found I had done that for only three of the profiles. I have corrected the fourth profile. I found a cache for an application that I no longer have installed. It's now gone. Now, I am wondering how many caches must be retained and how many can be periodically deleted. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
