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Did you know that there is no setting in the graphical user interface of the Google Chrome browser to change the location and size of the cache? I searched up and down and could not find an option to do that. Some users may say that this is not essential anymore, with growing hard drives and such. Others may have a different opinion on it on the other hand, considering that Chrome always installs itself on the main system partition in Windows.
The cache is conveniently placed in the installation directory as well. You find the default Chrome cache location under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache if you are running Windows 7.
There are several reasons why someone would want to change the location and size of the Chrome cache. Solid State Drives and system partitions with low storage space come to mind. And some users may want to move the cache location to the RAM instead, to speed up things, get the cache auto deleted on exit or avoid to many write cycles on the system partition.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/19/how-to-change-google-chromes-cache-location-and-size/
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Note: The above article is one of the best I’ve read on this subject. Unfortunately, I tried it out yesterday and it did not work. Here’s what I learned, on my system, at least.
When you add the ‘switch’ to the end of the command line (read the article to understand this), you also have to remove the information from the Start In Box in the Properties sheet. In my case, it started in the Program Files Directory where Google is installed.
On my computer the cache directory change did not work until I did this. In fact, I couldn’t find any active cache at all!
This situation may not occur on your computer, but it does give you a heads-up if you run into a snag.
Hope this helps!
Richard
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