File Browser cache location?

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Bernd_LOGAR
Feb 13, 2004
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Hi,

normally the Photoshop CS FileBrowser stores its cached thumbnails in

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Adobe\FileBrowser\PhotoshopCS.

How can I move this folder or how can I specify another directory/destination?

thx
Bernd

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Chris_Cox
Feb 13, 2004
Create an alias from that location to another location.

Other than that, you can’t change it.
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Andrew_Pietrzyk
Feb 14, 2004
Create an alias from that location to another location.

This is Windows forum Chris. 😉

Are you saying I could move “PhotoshopCS” folder to another location and place a shortcut to it in original “Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Adobe\File Browser “ directory?

Doesn’t seem to work that way. Photoshop recreates missing folder and re builds cache as if it was deleted.

BTW: it wouldn’t be bad idea if we could choose where FB cache directory resides. This folder is getting huge.
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LenHewitt
Feb 14, 2004
Andrew,

BTW: it wouldn’t be bad idea if we could choose where FB cache directory
resides. This folder is getting huge.<<

I think we all agree on that one, but unfortunately Microsoft say it HAS to go where it is for the application to be XP Logo compliant…..
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Andrew_Pietrzyk
Feb 14, 2004
Len,

unfortunately Microsoft say it HAS to go where it is for the application to be XP Logo compliant…..

I had no idea this is the case. Gee I thought I was OK with OS on 9 GB drive. I’m not sure how much longer with the FB cache folder always hungry for more space.
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Cristen_Gillespie
Feb 14, 2004
Len, I just brought my system down the file cache had grown so large behind my back. It took me a bit of panic time to figure out why my C drive lost so much space during a worksession it couldn’t save prefs and couldn’t initialize after closing. MS may want the folder on the same drive as the system, but can’t we at least do a registry hack of the HKEY etc., to change the path? Ideally, Adobe would build in something that allowed us to decide if we want to create a cache for a folder or not, but I gather by caching it speeds up previews of drives with folders on them. Without moving the File Browser cache, and I can’t take this machine down to repartition at the moment, I have to keep a close eye on the folder and manually delete the many, many files I don’t want a cache for.

I’m on W2K and don’t have to be compliant with the XP logo. Even if MS wants us to be compliant, what do they know? We ought to have a way to move that folder. I had almost a Gig of data in it, and a lot of that was for CDs that get put in the drive, folders I never would open in CS, etc. My PS7 cache was less than 5Mb. I expected bigger, but not that much bigger. I love a lot of the File Browser functions now in CS, and am willing to devote the space to it, but preferably not on the C drive.

Not knowing exactly how the File Browser functions, it’s difficult to know what kind of workaround is reasonable and will still let PS do its thing.
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LenHewitt
Feb 14, 2004
Cristen.

Even if MS wants us to be compliant, what do they know? <<

Actually it’s Adobe that wants to me MS XP be Logo compliant……it is considered a ‘Sales Aid’.

Having said that, as the application IS XP compliant, there is little one can do about it….
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Cristen_Gillespie
Feb 14, 2004
I’ll grant there is little we can do since it IS compliant, Len, but on the FAQ page it gives us the complete HKEY_CURRENt_USER path for the Application Data folder. That suggests to me a registry hack is possible, but I’m not real willing to mess about with the registry unless someone who knows more says it’s okay.

From yesterday’s experience, this is something that could bite users pretty hard. I back up my OS to CDs on a fairly regular basis. That is one good reason for keeping my C drive fairly small, and I don’t think I’m alone with that.

Hopefully, you all, including Adobe, who are more technically knowledgeable about the workings between the OS and PS, will come up with a better solution than purging unwanted cache files manually, and every few days, at that.

Yeah, I know that getting the coveted MS stamp of approval is an important sales aid, though considering it’s a Microsoft seal, maybe we all want to rethink that one. LOL

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