[sldev] 1.21 change makes SL work better for enterprises

[Tigro Spottystripes]

what prevents you from manually configuring and/or orienting the other
users to do so, the cache to use a folder where network usage, write
permissions and any other concerns are dealt with?

Dale Mahalko escreveu:
> I see a change is being made to how the client stores cache data.
>
> The cache was previously going into
> \Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\SecondLife\cache
>
> Which was bad for corporations and schools like me that use roaming
> profiles, since this would mean the SL cache is roaming with the user
> on the network, being stored on the servers. This reduces both network
> performance and server backup storage, and was a strike against using
> Second Life in a business environment.
>
>
> With 1.21 the cache is now being put into:
> \Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application
> Data\SecondLife\cache
>
> This is a far better way to do it. Local Settings does not roam with
> the user, and can stay on the computer until the user logs in again,
> and their account picks up the previously cached data.
>
>
> In my case the local account data gets deleted when roaming users log
> off (volitale profile) to keep lab computers from running out of disk
> space due to storing so much old unused profile data from many
> different users.
>
> It would be nice if there could be a centralized "cross-user local
> workstation cache" for networks using roaming. This would allow a
> single large cache on the local lab computer that isn't deleted when
> people log off and can be reused by different roaming students for
> class lab sessions going to the same parts of the world.
>
> A possible shared-cache location might be:
> \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SecondLife\cache
>
> Though I believe special write privileges are needed for programs to
> write data into All Users. Students login using the restricted Users
> group so they don't have write access to anywhere they want, but
> programs storing data in All Users have proper write privileges even
> if the logged-in user does not.
>
> - Dale Mahalko / Scalar Tardis
>
>
> ==============================
> Reference:
>
> http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/browser/trunk/indra/newview/llappviewer.cpp
>
> 2626 #if LL_WINDOWS || LL_DARWIN
> 2627         // NOTE: (Nyx) as of 1.21, cache for mac is moving to
> /library/caches/SecondLife from
> 2628         // /library/application support/SecondLife/cache This
> should clear/delete the old dir.
> 2629
> 2630         // As of 1.23 the Windows cache moved from
> 2631         //   C:\Documents and Settings\James\Application
> Support\SecondLife\cache
> 2632         // to
> 2633         //   C:\Documents and Settings\James\Local
> Settings\Application Support\SecondLife
> 2634         //
> 2635         // The Windows Vista equivalent is from
> 2636         //   C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\cache
> 2637         // to
> 2638         //   C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\SecondLife
> 2639         //
> 2640         // Note the absence of \cache on the second path.  James.
> 2641
> 2642         // Only do this once per fresh install of this version.
> 2643         if (gSavedSettings.getBOOL("MigrateCacheDirectory"))
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