FileBrowser and windows roaming profile problems

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camfairweather
May 27, 2004
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Our facility makes use of roaming profiles, with a 30meg proflie limit.

Photoshop CS FileBrowser appears to have no options for setting thumbnail cache directory locations, and forces a thumnail libiary into the users profile. Because we work with a 30meg profile limit and 1000’s of large files profile and disk space is quickly used up.

This results in a message appearing warning the user they have exceeded their profile space, and reported slow downs in performance due to lack of disk space.

Does anybody know of any way to modify (or disable) FileBrowser cache settings?

ACDsee viewer has a similar issue when default settings are used, but it is corrected by either disabling thumbnail caching or moving it to an ‘off proflie’ directory.

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Chris_Cox
May 27, 2004
Well, Microsoft says the cache should go in the user directory.

And you really should allow for much larger user profiles — 30 Meg is too easy to fill with just preferences data.

This sounds like another case of IT meets the real world….
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camfairweather
May 28, 2004
Preference data isn’t the problem. We use dozens of 3D/2D apps, all of them (and previous versions of Photoshop) working quite happily with a 30meg profile limit.

The problem is the thumbnail cache, which for at least one of our users has grown to 400meg using CS Filebrowser.

I would like to know how to change the thumbnail cache location with in CS FileBrowser. To suggest we have to disable roaming profiles to run Photoshop CS is not a workable solution for our facility.

It shouldn’t be too hard. Other thumbnail browsers and countless other windows applications allow for customization of cache directory locations to be ‘off profile’.

Anyone able to help?
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Audrey_Carolan
Jun 2, 2004
In the ‘Real World’ people log off and onto computers almost daily. With a roaming profile of 400Mb this can take, even on a 100Mb network, quite a long time, I have seen large profiles taking up to 30 minutes to load. The solution to this according to Microsoft is outlined in the following:

I’m using Roaming Profiles and my logons are slow—how can I make things faster?

A. The speed of the logon is directly related the size of the profile and the speed of the network. There are a number of things that you can do to limit the size of the profile:

• Redirect large folders such as My Documents this will reduce the amount of data copied to/from the computer at logon and logoff.

• Exclude large folders from the roaming profile. By default large folders such as Local Settings, Temp. and Temporary Internet Files folders do not roam. You can use the "Exclude directories in roaming profile" Group Policy setting to add new folders to the exclusion list; once included in the policy these folders will not be copied to the local machine at logon, nor copied back to the server at logoff.

• Set the Slow Network timeout appropriately if you’re logging on over a slow link. When a slow link is detected, the system uses the locally cached profile, rather than copying the profile from the server.

• Don’t save large files inside the user profile.

I try and enforce limits on profile sizes and most ‘Real World’ applications including some of Microsoft’s own allow me to point their Application Data files to another location. I have not managed to find the registry key that will allow me to do this for CS. Can you please add in this very important option and let us decide whether we want to break the rules Microsoft allow us to break or not.

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