Cache MUST be moved out of Documents
I know others have mentioned this, but the location of cache under Documents is absolutely interfering with work being done on the PC at other times. This of course is due to how OneDrive works and ...
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For this purpose folder linking programs or the Mlink command in the CMD Windows console are used (a more ergonomic solution is to use the program).
I use program call: Link Shell Extension
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
How to link the cache folder with Link Shell Extension?
1. Move the folder called "cache" to a location of your choice (for example to the HDD disc or second partition).
2. Right-click on the moved cache folder and select "Pick Link Source" from the context menu.
3. Go back to the folder from which you cut the cache file, right-click in the empty field and select "Drop *" and then "Junction" from the context menu
(Details in the attached screenshot link.jpeg)
4. Enjoy the moved folder.
This Linking operation allows you to tell Windows or programs that a given folder is in a different location.
I transferred the BF2042 game cache file using this method and everything works fine.
so try to move the cache to AppData\Local\ in this way, maybe it will help.
If I helped, give me xp.
Warning:
Be careful what you link, because if you link a system file, such as for example the hibernation file, it may damage the system.
Thanks to this guide, aplied this as I've already had another problem with OneDrive syncing and Company of Heroes 2.
I've also done this below:
1. Open OneDrive
2. Open Settings
3. Click on Advanced Setup
4. In the section Excluded file extensions, click the Exclude button
5. add the file type .PcDx12 (for the cache)
Probably DICE choose to leave cache at my documents since the size of the folder gets bigger and bigger and doesn't clear by itself from time to time, that way user could do this. It is a shame but apparently that is the way 😢😞
@FarewelI
Appreciate the tip as it sounds like it may be simple. It would be nice to install OneDrive and have it work again without it filling OneDrive cloud totally with cache files.- @sk1lld Discovered that the OneDrive file extension exclusion is bugged since October 2023. So now we are all hopeless.
I don't use OneDrive because I value my already very stunted privacy in today's world. The question is, have you tried linking the cache folder to, say, the LocalData folder or to another drive, or in the case of OneDrive, does this do nothing? I am thinking of the Mlink command in cmd.
