Suggestions on the cache and caching

By corrion | December 25th, 2008 | 7:53 pm

I just wanted to throw out a few suggestions:

1) I have two computers that use eBoostr, and I have a thumb drive that I use on both computers. I only want my home computer to use the eBoostr cache file on the thumb drive, and not my work computer. When I plug in the thumb drive to my work computer, it’ll consider it as an eBoostr device and then rebuild the cache on it, and then do it again once I get back home.  It would be nice if it were able to recognize computers and choose whether or not to use it as an eBoostr device.

2) On a side note, is there any chance the cache on the eBoostr on the device can be updated on-the-fly rather than completely rebuild it as it is doing right now?

3) Lastly, it would be nice to be able to see the cache file rather than hide it. There were a few occasions where I need to clear storage space on my thumb drive, and not being able to since I can’t just delete the cache file.  Vista’s Readyboost allows me to delete the cache file if needed.

Thanks for reading, love this program!

3 Responses to “Suggestions on the cache and caching”

  1. decrypt
    Dec 26, 2008

    I agree with point 2. Updated on the fly rather then hourly during idle.
    For my computer, it is rather hard to be idle since I use it for like the whole day and I off it when I am not using it.
    Sometimes updating cache takes a long time.


  2. Big Muscle
    Dec 26, 2008

    I’ve already suggested this http://www.eboostr.com/closedbeta/feedback/suggestion-build-cache-on-the-fly/

    but it’s left without an attention.


  3. Ilya Elenik
    Dec 26, 2008

    Thank you for your suggestions.
    1. I think it worth to be implemented. As a temporal solution you can use different file names for cache files.
    2. That is very difficult task. And it can slow up applications (since it will takes additional file IO). But we will try to move toward it.
    3. Ok. I think we can add it as an option.



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