Cache Folder (esp. video)
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Topic: Cache Folder (esp. video)
Posted By: tonyjmartin
Subject: Cache Folder (esp. video)
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 4:23pm
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From another thread that I started to steal: ......my clarification is in [brackets]
I'm planning on using video extensively. Is there a way to have the Cache folder reside on another drive, rather than the system drive? I can see things getting full pretty fast at about 1GB per minute of video.  ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 5:47pm
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At this time the cache folder has to be on the same drive as the application (but this does not have to be the system drive). It is possible to install Aurora into somewhere other than Program Files (e.g. D:\Aurora would result in the Cache folder being D:\Aurora\Cache). I've noted that in the future we probably should make the cache folder location configurable. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 6:26pm
That's excellent news, as I have only an 80GB system drive, but I have a second 160GB internal drive with two 80GB partitions. Next question: Should I uninstall Aurora from the C:drive and reinstall it on one of the available partitions on another drive, or can I just move the Aurora Folder from C:\Program_Files to another drive? I'm guessing that I shouldn't do that latter, but it never hurts to ask.  Thanks for your help! ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 6:32pm
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You will need to uninstall and then reinstall. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 6:57pm
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What OS do you have?
You _could_ mount a "dynamic" drive as a folder...
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Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 7:54pm
Dell Dimension 8300, XP Home, P4 2.6GHz, 1.25GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440/AGP8X 64MB 80GB/160GB Ultra ATA drives
Not a clue.  But the idea is to put the cache folder somewhere besides the system drive, as a dozen videos encoded in uncompressed RGB at 3-4 minutes long each would add up to 36-48GB of space needed on my system drive. ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 9:58pm
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In XP and Vista you can take a dive (D:, E:, ect...) and assign the "drive" to a directory, the "drive" then takes the directorys place. I've done it many times to give me space for temp/cache before. Move everything from the cache folder, to your spare drive, then mount the drive to the directory.
Try it out.
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Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 12:53am
Interesting workaround. I made my way through the path you described, and it looks like this could be a useful option in the future for other folders as well. I'll have to give it a try before I do an uninstall/reinstall of Aurora. Thanks! ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |