Hi,
a question if someone has some idea..
Trying to configure Google Chrome Portable to work only on a secondary HDD I noticed that it wrote cache data in the main SSD drive so I found the CacheInTemp=true setting in the ini file..
Changing that to "false" now Chrome writes data in C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Temp\
so it's still a problem..
Also tried in the ini file changing the
AdditionalParameters= --disk-cache-dir="D:\portable\PortableApps\GoogleChromePortable\Other\cache"
(for example)
but still it writes in the Local Settings Temp directory.. any ideas?
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If you set CacheInTemp to false, the launcher won't add its own --disk-cache-dir into the exec string. So, setting that plus using AdditionalParameters should work in theory.
AdditionalParameters=--disk-cache-dir="D:\portable\PortableApps\GoogleChromePortable\Other\cache"
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Thank you for the answer.. in theory yes.. but with both and it still writes in Local Settings - Temp :/
I setup a fresh install and only changed the two items we are discussing and it worked, placing the cache within my GoogleChromePortable directory in a Cache directory I created and pointed it to. Do you have other options you have set? Does the directory exist?
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Yes the directory exists..
It writes to it.. only the following files
-------------------------------------------------------------
\---Default +---Cache | \---Cache_Data | data_0 | data_1 | data_2 | data_3 | f_000001 | f_000002 | index | \---Code Cache +---js | | index | | | \---index-dir | the-real-index | \---wasm | index | \---index-dir the-real-index-------------------------------------------------------------
Perhaps it has to do with that I made changes to system registry to set Chrome Portable available in the list of Default browsers in Windows 10
Anyway.. I will keep testing.. and report back
Thank you all
The command line passed to chrome.exe for neither of those options vs both of them only differs in what directory --disk-cache-dir is pointed to. Is there something else that isn't working? If you set it as default, did you point it to GoogleChromePortable.exe? If pointed to chrome.exe, it won't work right.
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Also, is the ini file in the Google Chrome Portable root directory, or still in Other\Source? It won't work if it isn't moved beside GoogleChromePortable.exe.
Thank you all for your support
ini file is moved to root dir now
The registry of Windows was modified correctly (to GoogleChromePortable.exe and not chrome.exe) from the beginning
I checked with a cache-view program from Nirsoft and indeed the cache seems to be to my directory as instructed in the ini file
The only thing that is still written in C:\ drive when Chrome starts is a series of .tmp files
for example:
I guess those will remain..