| Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 6/28/09 12:42 PM | Hello Google Chrome Developers There is a feature missing in Chrome that I have been waiting for since the day it launched. Now Chrome is at Version 2 and this feature is still missing. I need to be able to specify the cache size and location. Chro |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | andycool22 | 8/26/09 7:07 AM | bump |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | AtekA | 10/14/09 5:10 AM | I agree totally. |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | fuljencio | 10/28/09 10:50 AM | Limit cache size. I also need it. Please provide this option. Thank you! |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | danielillu | 10/28/09 10:59 AM | It is not acceptable to me having a folder for chrome that takes up to 573MB and growing, just to store the past! There I can find 230MB of cache, two previous chrome versions nd installers, 83MB of thumbnails (WTF?!), and a file per month of a huge |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | agenkin | 11/16/09 1:27 PM | The ability to configure the disk cache size and location is very important, and should be included with Google Chrome. My home directory is on a slow network share, and I am using a caching HTTP proxy, so I would like to disable the disk caching al |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 11/16/09 2:08 PM | I am answering my own question here, since we have had no response from the developers. Chrome is at version 3 now, and there is still no way to modify the cache settings.This seems to be true for other Google products as well, since I have found no |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | N.T. | 12/12/09 9:43 PM | I NEED TO LIMIT THE CACHE SIZE!! It takes hundreds of MBs for just a cache, wt the f.. |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | mivadar | 1/4/10 6:17 AM | Thank You Xenofon for the work-around. Just bumping / adding to this, because I really think that this is a crucial feature (especially limiting the cache/temporary files size), and it is the main reason why I don't have the otherwise faster and bet |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | gsatix | 1/27/10 12:55 AM | I'd like to see "empty cache on exit" option either. |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Bapabooiee | 1/27/10 1:06 AM | Well, you guys are in luck (BTW, great work-around, Xenofon), since Chrome now has two startup switches that you can use: --disk-cache-dirand--disk-cache-size Simply close Chrome, right-click your Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and then in the fi |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 1/27/10 2:57 AM | @Bapabooiee Thanks, it's good to know that Chrome has this new feature. I'd still prefer it if they implemented this from a menu within Chrome, like every other browser, such as Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, etc. The problem with command line switch |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Bapabooiee | 1/27/10 2:32 PM | @Xenofon: There is such a hack, actually. The registry key is: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command] You could add the switches to that key, and it would work even if launched by another application. Though, as you said, that isn't genera |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | degarb | 2/3/10 12:53 PM | I dont buy that when cache limit is reached, a browser must delete a file for each file retrieved. If limit reached,a delete oldest files routine could be triggered. Now, I am more interested if these switches can be used in linux? |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Stratman69 | 2/21/10 10:56 PM | Xenofon, please help! I followed your instructions and I receive the following (copy and pasted from my Command Propmpt entry): mklink/J "C:\Users\Stratman\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data" "F:\Chrome Cache and Settings\User Data" Cannot create |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 2/22/10 3:46 AM | @Stratman You got the error because you copied the User Data folder from C: to F: and like you say, you now have two User Data folders. It's telling you it can't make a link because a folder with that name already exists. If you read through my ins |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Stratman69 | 2/22/10 10:13 AM | Xenofon, Thanks! That worked. Yes, MOVE and COPY are not the same, I should have read "closer". Would you know if this command and instructions can be used to move other folders (Documents, Pictures, etc.) from my C Drive to an external drive? I wou |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 2/22/10 11:46 AM | @Stratman Yes, you can make links to any directory that way. But that is NOT the recommended way for moving the location of the Documents and Pictures folders. If you use the link method for moving any of user folders that Windows sets up, like My D |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | monkey1230405 | 2/26/10 11:26 PM | @Xenofon Thank you SOOOOO much for your solution re mklink It works brilliantly and I haven't had any problems. One question though. How do you reverse this process, or remove the link Not that I need to, but I'm just curious. |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 2/27/10 1:18 AM | @monkey123405 Lots of ways to delete the links but one warning - DON'T use Windows Explorer to delete them. You may accidentally delete the files too, not just the symbolic link. Best way to delete them is through a command prompt. The "rmdir" comma |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | monkey1230405 | 2/27/10 5:53 PM | @Xenofon thanks for the reply. I now have another problem which involves my laptop with an SSD, with limited space. I can't symlink it to anything now, so I want to limit the cache by applying a switch. I've tried all the variations of the switch pr |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | monkey1230405 | 2/27/10 6:13 PM | Hmm..don't think i have much success with the registry key I went to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command] and I typed in "...chrome.exe" -- "disk-cache-size=5242880" changing it from "...chrome.exe" -- "%1" because i thought i should mak |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | Xenofon | 2/27/10 8:01 PM | @monkey1230405 Sorry, I don't know about the command line switches and registry key question. That was Bapabooiee's suggestion. I haven't personally tried it. Perhaps Bapabooiee will see your question, and answer. If not, maybe someone else can hel |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | monkey1230405 | 2/28/10 9:32 PM | @Xenofon Don't worry, I managed to do a bit more research and finally got it to work. This is what I did: I went to the Google Chrome shortcut, right click, properties. Then under the Shortcut tab, in target, I typed in: "...\Google\Chrome\Applicatio |
| Re: Needed Feature: Cache Size/Location | monkey1230405 | 2/28/10 9:53 PM | Ok, I have my final update. It was all to do with the switch --disk-cache-size=N, where N is in bytes...or is it? The --media-cache-size=N switch didn't affect the size of the Cache folder, but I haven't figured out if it affects the Media Cache fold |
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