HUGE cache in profile

Michael_Dorfman · Post by **Michael_Dorfman** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:45 am

Right now, my Vault profile is about 1.5gig.

This is particularly interesting because the contents of my working folders sum to about 1.2gig.

We're on version 3.1.5.

Is something odd going on here?

Michael Dorfman

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:36 am

Not necessarily. The folders in your local settings directory usually include cache files and other data that's not in your working folder. There may also be additional folders if you connected to a different Vault server, connected as a different user, etc.

Michael_Dorfman · Post by **Michael_Dorfman** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:27 am

Interesting.

In this case, there's no other user and no other server, and I deleted the cache folder and it was re-created fresh at the same size.

So, if I am understanding correctly, it's just that the amount of information you are storing about my files is larger than the size of the files themselves, is that right? And that this is not an unusual state of affairs?

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:23 am

just that the amount of information you are storing about my files is larger than the size of the files themselves

That's correct. Vault not only stores baselines for each file, but also state files. There's one state file per folder.