Is there a way of relocating Image Cache to another drive

[crocodillis 0]

Hi all 

I currently have a 60GB SSD as my c drive and I am using MB3 classic I have over 10 gb of cover art treated images in the image cache and I am fast running out of drive space on C:

Is there a way to point the Sever to image cache on another drive?.

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance 

[crashkelly 62]

Hi all 

I currently have a 60GB SSD as my c drive and I am using MB3 classic I have over 10 gb of cover art treated images in the image cache and I am fast running out of drive space on C:

Is there a way to point the Sever to image cache on another drive?.

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance 

 

Just to confirm, you are also running MB3 Server on the same machine?

 

Cheers

 

EDIT: To early in the morning. MBC has it s own cache on whatever PC you are running it on.

Edited November 13, 2013 by crashkelly

[ebr 16169]

Please confirm crashkelly's question because I'm not sure which image cache you are talking about.

[Abobader 3464]

Good day,

 

This was feature request, and Luke already reduce the size of the image, and at some point in the future, the mb3 server will over this option.

 

My best

[ebr 16169]

EDIT: To early in the morning. MBC has it s own cache on whatever PC you are running it on.

 

But he said "point the server" so it still isn't clear to me to which cache he is referring.

[crocodillis 0]

Sorry I should have clarified yes I'm running MB3 both server and MB3 are running on a dedicated HTPC with 6 drives in it.

the image cache is around 10 gb and I only have a 60 GB SSD with just the operating system a couple of programs  MB3 and the server on it.

 

I was wondering if I can move the Image cache with all the covert art images in it to one of the other drives?.

[ebr 16169]

 

 

MB3 both server and MB3 are running on a dedicated HTPC

 

Still not sure which cache you are talking about based on that.  Are you saying the server and MBC are on the same machine?  And are you talking about the MBC cache or the server cache?

 

If you are talking about the MBC Cache, you can try deleting the whole ImageCache folder and letting MBC re-build it.  If you did a lot of fiddling with CA treatments or poster sizes, this may result in a smaller cache size.

 

However, running both of those programs on one machine where 10GB of usage is a problem is probably going to be tight no matter what.

[WWWestern 94]

You can it. Use symlinks to point. Find free utility Link Shell Extension for better usability.

[CashMoney 94]

;-) You can it. Use symlinks to point. Find free utility Link Shell Extension for better usability.

Beat me to it . This is the way I do it and for same reason as OP. 

[Luke 42077]

At this time no

[Starkadius 219]

Symlinks as mentioned is the way to go. I do this for the gamebrowser collection as well having all games spread across multiple drives but appearing pooled in one drive.

[crocodillis 0]

Thanks guys I will give it a try 

I am assuming just cut and paste both MB server Image cache and MB classic Image Cache folders to the drive of my choice and have simlink point to them.

Am I correct in my thinking?

[crashkelly 62]

At this time, since there is nothing built into to the system, should WWWestern's post be considered an "answer"?

 

Personally I think so as I have been wondering about the same thing as I am getting a little tight on space on my main drive.

 

Thanks

[johnchimpo 7]

Back before I replaced my 30GB SSD I had to do this for both MB2 and MetaBrowser. Used junction points (similar to symbolic links)... Junction Link Magic is pretty useful for it but make sure you understand the concept behind it and how to do them in the command prompt also beforehand.