Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP SWAP Folder not honored

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi!

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:33 AM stormy <forums gimpusers com> wrote:

> > Hi,
> > Do you have any link for developers so that we know where to look for
> > regarding this SWAP settings?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "link", the "SWAP Folder" is a GIMP feature,
> it is
> located in EDIT->Preferences, then scroll down to FOLDERS, there are two
> options
> one "Temporary folder" and other is "Swap folder".
Oh sorry. I thought this was some OS settings where you could configure
where programs should cache their data by default.

Anyway I opened a bug report on our side:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/2224

Jehan


> > Does it go to one or the other? I'm sure it does the right thing, but
> > I
> > doubt that it randomly use one folder or another at different runs,
> > right?
>
> It never went to the location I set in the actual preferences dialog,
> instead it
> went into one or the other locations , that depended on the
> cleanup/reinstall
> sequence i took (did this many times), but once it chose a location , it
> kept
> using it for the duration of that install cycle.. if i were to cleanup and
> reinstall, it might choose the other location, but, never the one
> specified in
> the prefs.
>
>
> > special case the cache directory for this OS. If you tell us more
> > about
> > this SWAP settings on Windows (and in particular what we have to look
> > for?
>
> I'm talking about GIMP's internal swap, not windows swap.  I'm just an
> end-user,
> do not know how gimp uses this 'swap' :)
>
> > Is there an API to know this folder? An env variable), this would
> > help.
>
> Maybe there is an env var, I just used the GUI interface to try and
> relocate the
> swap to a drive with more space.
>
> > Also what is the proper default cache folder expected on Windows if
> > none
> > were explicitly set?
>
> I guess this is OK:
>
> c:\Users\myuser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\gegl-0.4
>
> as for a default, or leave it like today, to choose based on some other
> window's
> specific logic.
>
> > Please when you answer, mention me explicitly (I have filters) so that
> > I
> > don't miss your answer.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jehan
>
> hopefully you see this Jehan :)
>
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