Spammed Files from Second Life (Firestorm) ?

[Lucas Lameth]

When ever I play Second Life I get these files spam in my hard drive. I think it is saving texture information but I am not sure. It overwhelms my hard drive and also somehow some things in my hard drive got mass deleted when I accidentally pressed something to prompt this a week or two ago. This is happening on my desktop but I also have a gaming laptop that has the same issue but instead all the spam files are saved on my desktop overwhelming the screen. If this has happened to anyone using Firestorm or standard Second Life viewer and has any advice, thank you in advance!

 

[Alwin Alcott]

16 minutes ago, Lucas Lameth said:

When ever I play Second Life I get these files spam in my hard drive. I think it is saving texture information but I am not sure. It overwhelms my hard drive and also somehow some things in my hard drive got mass deleted when I accidentally pressed something to prompt this a week or two ago. This is happening on my desktop but I also have a gaming laptop that has the same issue but instead all the spam files are saved on my desktop overwhelming the screen. If this has happened to anyone using Firestorm or standard Second Life viewer and has any advice, thank you in advance!

looks to me you changed the cache location. It's all dumped on your HD, it belongs in a folder in the app data folders of your pc.

mine is at
C:\Users\[pc user name]\AppData\Local\Firestorm_x64\

in Firestorm you can change it in the preferences/ network &files/directories

Edited August 19, 2020 by Alwin Alcott

[Mollymews]

Lucas that is the Second Life cache files

to fix in standard Linden viewer then menu: Me \ Preferences \ Advanced \ Cache \ Cache location \ Default Location button

on Windows this will save the cache files to the AppData SecondLile cache folder

[Lucas Lameth]

Thank you guys soo much! You both solved  my noob problem. My main hard drive is low on storage so I do remember clearing my cache and re-routing to a new hard drive since I thought that would somehow reduce lag. I didn't realize that's what would happen. 

Thanks again! 🙏

[Mollymews]

1 hour ago, Lucas Lameth said:

Thank you guys soo much! You both solved  my noob problem. My main hard drive is low on storage so I do remember clearing my cache and re-routing to a new hard drive since I thought that would somehow reduce lag. I didn't realize that's what would happen. 

Thanks again! 🙏

if the main drive is getting full then we can change the cache to go on another drive (as it seemed you wanted to do) Just be careful that you do actually specify the actual drive (D:) or whichever

the cache does help with Second Life performance

[Nalates Urriah]

3 hours ago, Lucas Lameth said:

Thank you guys soo much! You both solved  my noob problem. My main hard drive is low on storage so I do remember clearing my cache and re-routing to a new hard drive since I thought that would somehow reduce lag. I didn't realize that's what would happen. 

Thanks again! 🙏

Clearning the cache will slow the SL scene render and throw extra load on the SL system. Basically clearing cache = bad.

There is no problem moving the viewer cache to another location. That is why the control is in Preferences. I place the cache for my primary viewer  in a RAM drive and have software to store and reload the cache when I restart the computer. My secondary viewer's cache I placed on my SSD.

Note: each viewer uses its own cache. Once upon a time all viewers shared their cache files. There were lots of problems so everyone has moved away from shared caches. However, if you are using multiple viewers and are short on disk space you might try combining the caches.