On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:32:26PM +0000, Tony Moore wrote: > Previous versions of NetSurf create a directory www.NetSurf.Cache in > Scrap. NetSurf #1956 creates www.NetSurf.Misc , but not Cache. I assumed > that 'Misc' had replaced 'Cache'. If not, what is 'Misc'?
NetSurf for RISC OS long long ago had a hack of a cache for images only. This was removed many years ago. I guess the Misc folder is for miscellany, but searching for "Misc" in the entire source code reveals nothing relevant at all. I have no idea what it's for. > > as I said in the previous mail we are using !Cache (shipped in the > > !Boot of the CI builds ready for merge) to store this persistent data. > > So the data should be stored in Resources.!Cache.Caches ? You can put it wherever you like, just as long as it is "seen" by the Filer before NetSurf is launched. > Using RO 6.20 > Caches contains Single.MimeMan.MimeBase and Single.MimeMan.PluginMime. > Both of these files are in SQLite format, but their datestamps have not > changed since installing NS #1956 several hours ago. These have nothing to do with NetSurf, but !Caches is not unique to NetSurf; some other software on your system may now be using it. B.
