Cache Purge Option
| Case number: | 671071-985809 |
| Topic: | Game: Other |
| Opened by: | Steven Pletsch |
| Status: | Open |
| Assigned: | Seth Cooper |
| Priority: | 3 |
| Type: | Feature |
| Opened on: | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 16:55 |
| Last modified: | Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 19:27 |
How about a button under options that reads <Purge Cache> or <Clear Cache>
that would delete the old .pdb and .ir_* files greater than 15 or 30 days old on a machine.
Perhaps it should pop up a warning that you will not be able to view your solutions to expired puzzles greater than that age, and an are you sure <Yes> <Cancel> dialog box before actually doing it.
In practice, clearing these out significantly increases the speed of the client when navigating menus and such.
Another thought in this direction, if the deletion of these files is not desired ....
Perhaps instead of deleting them, you can make a subdirectory in the folder, and when a puzzle is no longer active, move it into an "_old" folder. This way the old files do not have to be indexed each time, but if a person chooses to click the "show expired puzzles" option it can still pull the index from the subdirectory. Perhaps modifying the text to "show expired puzzles (slow)"
bump for comment will this speed things up?
And bump again.
Keep best solution and manual saves, trash all the rest (or give us option what should be purged).
Foldit directory is growing... :)
Until there is a way to get old puzzles from the web site (hint!), I don't think .pdb files should be removed.
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Assigning to me.