[sldev] A few call stacks from crash reports

Joshua Bell josh at lindenlab.com
Thu Apr 16 08:47:13 PDT 2009


Dale Mahalko wrote:
> 
> Also it is annoying that as a beta client, it reuses my normal
> client's preferences folder in "Application Data". I really do not
> like starting up a beta client only to see that it immediately decides
> to completely expunge the cache of the regular non-crashing client.
> Ack! Why can't it make its own test preferences folder in "Application
> Data" and leave my regular client preferences/cache alone?

There's a flag "--settings" that can be passed into the viewer that 
specifies the preferences filename to use. This is usually specified in 
the shortcuts (Windows)/arguments.txt (MacOS) created used for viewers 
in different distribution channels or test grids (e.g. "--settings 
settings_aditi_beta.xml"). Depending on how your viewer is packaged or 
how you're running it you may need to specify it manually.

It doesn't modify the cache location, though, and it uses the same 
directories. So... that'd maybe solve half your problem.



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