RC leaving large temp files in user\appdata

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Jennifer Cross

• August 04, 2017 07:25

RC seems to be using and leaving quite a lot of temp data in the user spaces.
Atm, I see 67gb in c:\users\<userid>\appdata\local\temp\RealityCapture

Is there some way to control where these temp files are written? (so at least all users on a machine could share a directory for performance or housekeeping)
Are these needed between sessions? If not, maybe a clean up on exit (option) would be good too.

Thank you
Jennifer

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature request or just another set of controls I haven't found yet...

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  ShadowTail

  • August 04, 2017 07:56

  You have two options:
  
  change the cache location in the settings
  set RC to delete its cache on application exit.
  
  Not deleting the cache while you are working on a particular project is recommended.
  Otherwise RC will have to process some data over and over again.
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  Jennifer Cross

  • August 04, 2017 08:15

  Thanks shadowtail..
  So just me still getting up to speed..
  So if I set them to save in project folder, then everyone (if we had more users) would get to use the same cache files on that project? Seems like a win - and then delete them when archiving the project.
  
  Thanks again!
  Jennifer
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  Wishgranter

  • August 04, 2017 12:43

  Hi Jennifer Cross
  
  Not possible to use same folder for RC CACHE, or get in really hard corruption of data. Best if you palce it in custom folder
  like X:/RC_CACHE and clear if form time to time ( project scope dependent )

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