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4 years ago

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Cache being saved to documents, which gets synced by Onedrive

Battlefield seems to save settings and cache files to userfolder\Documents\Battlefield 2042, which is contrary to all Microsoft Guidelines. These should instead be stored in userfolder\AppData. This...

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sk1lld
1 year ago
@RayD_01 spotted that the cache folder has been moved to the \BattfieldGameData.kin %appdata% folder out of MyDocuments folder. Guys let me know if you can use OneDrive again!

EdTheLoon

4 years ago

I also noticed this myself. My cache was rather large and also synchronising whilst playing. Some games use the Documents folder to store things like user configurations, save files etc which makes sense. However saving a cache into this folder is a huge waste of system resources. Cache files should be saved into the AppData folder as suggested which is the folder's intended use.

Deleting and creating the folder again is not a viable workaround. You can follow the steps in the below link but again it is not an ideal workaround. This problem will be affecting every user with automatic onedrive backup.

https://superuser.com/questions/1559562/exclude-specific-sub-folders-from-the-onedrive-important-pc-backup-folders