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Summary: | [73cat] permanent or easy config of userdir/cachedir | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | muellermi <muellermi> |
Component: | Launchers&CLI | Assignee: | Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | oliverrettig |
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 7.3 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 7 | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
muellermi
2012-11-02 13:43:25 UTC
Is this still an issue? I checked on my windows installation @work. The structure looks sane: I use netbeans 8 and got: - Cache-Dir is c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\8.0 - Config-Dir is C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.0 While the cache is _big_, the config is for me 40MB. According to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-appdata-folder this looks ok, as only the 40 MB are part of the roaming profile and are moved when changing PCs. Yes, it still is a big issue, thus I set it to P2 just now. Although the user dir is the smaller one, NetBeans often is the no 1 candidate to make login and logoff at a windows system slow. And, people dividing their hard disk (especia if it is al smaller SSDs) into two drives (c: -> system, d: -> data) will run out of space after a year of frequent windwos updates. _I_ knwow how to use other folders and point to them by using command line parameters. But, it is an annoying job to chang this every time, espeical if you frequently download nightly builds. And, most people don't know how to change it, nor do they know, that there is such an option. And without the later knowledge, they wont search a faq. Thus, I still recommend to offer an option during installation. |