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Scratch Disks

ihavednaihavedna Posts: 17
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Am I able to customize my scratch disks in Daz? How would I go about doing that?

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Scratching your disks is generally a bad idea, or what did you mean?

  • ihavednaihavedna Posts: 17
    for context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space "Scratch space is space on the hard disk drive that is dedicated for storage of temporary user data. It is unreliable by intention and has no back up. Scratch disks may occasionally be set to erase all data at regular intervals so that the disk space is left free for future use. The management of scratch disk space is typically dynamic, occurring when needed. Its advantage is that it is faster than e.g. network filesystems. "Scratch space is commonly used in scientific computing workstations, and in graphic design programs such as Adobe Photoshop. It is used when programs need to use more data than can be stored in system RAM."
  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Sounds like something from the "stone age"

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,782

    Ds does not use custom scratch space, any paging to memory is handled by the operating system

  • ihavednaihavedna Posts: 17
    thats good to know :) thank you richard!
  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384

    DAZ Studio does, however, have a "temp" folder that it uses to store temporary data when in use. It is usually cleared when you close Studio, so that is a type of cache. Whether the amount of data is significant is another matter.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,782
    SixDs said:

    DAZ Studio does, however, have a "temp" folder that it uses to store temporary data when in use. It is usually cleared when you close Studio, so that is a type of cache. Whether the amount of data is significant is another matter.

    Thanks for pointing the Temp folder out. I was being too literal-minded.

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