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Move Cache Location?
Authored by: jasonxz on Feb 20, '03 05:08:21PM

Using IE, I can select which disk or folder to place my web cache in, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that with Safari. Any ideas?



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Move Cache Location?
Authored by: asterizk on Feb 20, '03 05:16:07PM

Hi jasonxz,

I think Safari's still a "work-in-progress" in that regard (I'm guessing the
option will probably appear in a future release).

krishen



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RE: Move Cache Location?
Authored by: glowurm on Feb 20, '03 07:51:15PM

If you take a look to the above comment, titled "The Unix way..." I think it applies to your question as well. However, you would change the first path listed to the new location you wanted the cache file to reside in. So, rather than:

ln -s /dev/null /path/to/cachefile

you would have:

ln -s /newpath/for/cachefile /currentpath/to/cachefile

This would create a symbolic link in the current directory to the new directory. Make sure to note the use of spaces, and hopefully I haven't forgotten anything.



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RE: Move Cache Location?
Authored by: jasonxz on Feb 20, '03 11:59:59PM

If I trash the old Safari cache folder after creating the symbolic link to a new path, will that cause problems?



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