[housekeeping] ballooning of %APPDATA%

0xFeedBeef

Just noticed that over the course of my using SF, what, two years or so,

[code]
%APPDATA%\Roaming\DVDFab\StreamFab\localdata\picture
[/code]

has ballooned to over 80Gig! Seriously, you don't need to keep all the pictures for every single download there (and isn't that what the TEMP folder's MetaPicture is for anyway)?

AGuyWithAComputer

Don't need the \Roaming after %appdata%. %appdata% points to the roaming folder in the appdata folder of your profile

%APPDATA%\DVDFab\StreamFab\localdata\picture

But seriously, shouldn't that clear out on it's own...

0xFeedBeef

Don't need the \Roaming after %appdata%. %appdata% points to the roaming folder in the appdata folder of your profile

AGuyWithAComputer

copypasta :p

[QUOTE=AGuyWithAComputer]

But seriously, shouldn't that clear out on it's own...[/QUOTE]

should vs does :confused:

ms-dfav

Yes, apart from cache (which I somehow managed to NOT clean for almost a year now - which is convenient, as this stores all the login data for services), you can safely delete the contents of the following directories, some of which are constantly growing:

WARNING - this will also clean the queue and the download history!
(which may be a good thing)

SF_TMP\outputTemp
SF_TMP\picture
SF_TMP\MetaPicture

SF_APPDATA\localdata
SF_APPDATA\taskdata

where

SF_TMP =  General -> Temp Directory>
SF_APPDATA = \AppData\Roaming\DVDFab\StreamF ab>

Obviously, you need to close SF before doing any of this.

0xFeedBeef

perhaps @jpp72 would write a batch file for this one day when he's bored out of his head... ;)

Sebastian001

for what delete the two folders and that's it

0xFeedBeef

yup, stick it into start up, and ta-da!

simchris

I set a custom folder on my separate output drive, e.g., Z/SFAB and point all the temp and cache stuff there. Simple to just open SFAB and CTRL+A delete. Helps keep my C drive Macrium backups more tidy, too.

0xFeedBeef

yup, I have my TEMP on a huge ram disk (64GB) so that's not a problem for me, but %APPDATA% ballooning was a huge surprise, in my case, I just create a junction to a separate directory on the ram disk for the localdata directory now that I know it balloons

simchris

(deleted ... coffee not kicking in over here ... )

Stan001

Might be needed to ask also for V7 of streamfab.

That stuff should be cleared once SF is closed, as it's not needed.
I have recently deleted all SF stuff except for streamfab.ini and then installed the latest versions.

People will need to make note of this and can make their own bat or power script file to delete the main folders that are accumulating so much waste.
I get lazy and will, about every month or so, delete the folders manually.

I have considered, since it is possible, changing the locations of the temp and log folders, but it will still fill with waste.
I know I have a 1TB drive as my main drive, but I still don't like gigs of waste accumulating.

AnttDvdFab

Someone told me once on this forum that if you delete just the pictures folder, then create an empty FILE named pictures (no extension) that it can't or won't create the folder. I just tested it and it worked.

Obviously you have to be OK with SF not displaying thumbnails in the download queue or muxing them into the final video.

Stan001

Someone told me once on this forum that if you delete just the pictures folder, then create an empty FILE named pictures (no extension) that it can't or won't create the folder. I just tested it and it worked.

Obviously you have to be OK with SF not displaying thumbnails in the download queue or muxing them into the final video.

Yeah, as far as I recall it was Germania who stated it. I don't know if I like the idea of blocking everything to that folder. It's not that big a deal to delete the contents about once a month.
But everyone is different.

Germania

I use this for MetaPicture - source

KidJoe

I must have cleaned up without remembering recently as my %APPDATA%\DVDFab is only 117 meg.

MrKrawk

I asked for a similar request in the next version update, nice to see it's not just the one folder I have been watching.

The folder called Metapicture OUTSIDE the cache folder I had reported in the styicky that never cleans itself up. Honestly that folder should clean itself up every time you launch the program.

MrKrawk

Looks like they changed the peacock module to create separate folders for each cover art instead of putting them all in metapicture.

There are subfolders for every download, such as "temp_20250818_12324567890123456"

All that BLOAT must be why it still seems to take so long saving task queue even though you deleted the entire history.