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Where is the Google Chrome Portable cache folder?SilentWalker (Homepage)
- January 14, 2010 - 10:00pm
I searched the Data directory and I could not find a cache folder. ( categories: )
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Anyone?
Anyone?
There is none.
Chrome Portable, like FFP, doesn't save the cache by default.
Note that unlike Firefox however, there's no way to turn the cache off completely in Chrome, so while it's running the cache is stored in the local temp directory (%TEMP%), but then it's immediately deleted when you exit Chrome.
So anyway, yeah, no surprise that you couldn't find it.
Awww :(
Can someone make a launcher that copies the cache folder back into the Data directory?
And why did you all disable caching in Chrome? Do you all intend to give an 'option' to enable/disable it any time soon?
you might be only one
with this wish.
MOst people try to avaoid any kind of cache in portable apps, since this either makes the apps not portable any more or difficult to use on the media it is meant to be used for - usb flash sticks.
If you have cache to be written to the stick, all will become useless slow. You will not be able to use such browser very efficiently any more. It will work fine if your media is portabel hard drive for example, but not for the generic usb stick from the discount shop at next corner.
And imagine in your case: ususal cache of let say 50mb to be written each time back to the stick when you exit the browser? How long does 50mb write take to an average usb stick? And how much extra write stress for the flash chips is produced by this?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
The cache folder is saved in
The cache folder is saved in %TEMP%\GoogleChromePortable.
This keeps everything fast.
Sorry for the slow reply, new job plus new gaming computer keeping me busy.
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is there a way to avoid to clear the cache on exit
Hi
is there a way to avoid to clear the cache on exit?
thanks
I hope
I hope the developer release chrome that support cache for my external hard disk
really need it because my ISP is very slow
There are two solutions for
There are two solutions for you:
1) Modify the launcher to point to your external drive.
2) Move your Temp folder to your external drive.
Google around for #2. #1 just involves editing the launcher to point to your external drive instead of %TEMP% and recompiling the launcher with NSIS.
A warning first though:
USB2.0 drives, old or new, have a limit of about 20mb/s thanks to the USB2.0 protocol limits. Even my 7 year old internal drive gets speeds 3 times faster than that. Unless you are using USB3.0 your external drive is going to be slower than an internal one.
I would recommend you run a drive benchmarking app to measure the speed of all your drives before moving anything around.
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all is right but one detail
namely:
>USB2.0 drives, old or new, have a limit of about 20mb/s thanks to the USB2.0 protocol limits. Even my 7 year old internal drive gets speeds 3 times faster than that. Unless you are using USB3.0 your external drive is going to be slower than an internal one.<
the speed of flash sticks has little to do with USB protocol limits. USB2.0 handles 60mb/s, but there are no usb-flash controllers of such low power and size which could handle this speed and could hide in a small plastic made usb stick. And since the controllers are slow, the manufacturer will also use slow flash chips to make it cheaper. USB3 will not rise the speed here by any bit.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland