On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:26 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > One of my classmates is running Lightroom on her Macbook laptop. Not sure > what version it is, but every time she imports photos, it populates her > entire desktop with cache files, hundreds of individual icons - cache0001, > cache0002 ... > > Which she then just selects and drags to the trash. > > I tried telling her she can go into Lightroom's preferences and set it to > use a folder for Lightroom's cache files, but she doesn't want to hear that. > > I don't think that can be good though.
She's inadvertently got the Camera Raw cache set to the desktop. On Mac OS X systems, this should be set to the path ~/Library/Caches/Adobe Camera Raw by default. But it's neither bad nor good. The Camera Raw cache can be set to any folder on the system for which a user has read/write access privileges. The contents are dynamic ... they're created on demand by the application while it runs. Having it set to the Desktop folder just creates a lot of clutter, but doesn't hurt anything. You should convince her to set the "Camera Raw Cache Settings" to the default location. A cache size of 1 to 4 Gbytes is about right for most users. In Lightroom 3.2, this setting is in the Lightroom Preferences dialog, "File Handling" tab panel. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
