On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 06:08:58PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 3/26/10 5:50 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:30:18PM -0400, rgheck wrote: > > > >>On 03/26/2010 01:11 PM, rgheck wrote: > >>>A user noted that, by putting the converter cache in the user > >>>directory, we risk running people over their disk quotas, since > >>>that cache can get fairly large. The attached moves the cache to > >>>LyX's temporary directory. Does anyone know a reason not to do > >>>this? > >>> > >>Ahh, I see the reason, namely, that the converter cache is supposed > >>to be persistent. So, putting it in LyX's temporary directory won't > >>work, since that gets deleted. The other option, then, is to put it > >>in the system temporary directory somehow, but (a) it can't just be > >>/tmp/lyx-cache/ on a multi-user system and (b) it can't be > >>/tmp/some-random-name/, because we need to be able to find it again. > >>Is there any way we could do something like this: > >>/tmp/lyx-username-cache/? I.e., is there some cross-platform way to > >>find a username? > >Note that the /tmp directory gets nuked on reboot. Then, I don't think > >that it is a good idea spreading files around in the file system. > > > Not here, but you're right that some systems do nuke it. > > Any other ideas, then? This does seem to be a real problem for some people.
Several: 1. Disable cache. 2. Softlink the cache dir somewhere else. 3. Use the -userdir flag when launching lyx. 4. Set the LYX_USERDIR_16x to a place with plenty of room. -- Enrico
