What happens when flash drive with eboostr.dat is moved from one computer to another?

By leblancj | December 1st, 2008 | 7:26 pm

Hi,

Given that flash drives are the typical hosts for caches, what happens when a host flash drive is moved from one computer to another, where both are using eboostr and both expect to find eboostr.dat on the flash drive?

Will this cause a crash or does eboostr recognize that a *.dat file doesn’t match a particular computer?

Would you have to recreate the cache to use the flash drive on a different computer (e.g., going from home to work to home again on the same day)?

John LeBlanc

2 Responses to “What happens when flash drive with eboostr.dat is moved from one computer to another?”

  1. mikei
    Dec 02, 2008

    Eboostr will recognize file, and recreate it’s content at next cache build event automatically. Untill then it will not cache files.

    If you often use same flash for 2 (or more) PC’s with eboostr, you can set alternative case file name for one machine. In this case you will have 2 cache files on same flash for two PC’s.

    To set cache file name you need to create registry entry under:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\eBoost\Parameters

    String type value: CacheFileName
    In form: \mycache.dat
    Leading slash is IMPORTANT.

    Setting will be activated after reboot.


  2. leblancj
    Dec 02, 2008

    Good approach. What I would suggest is that if there are others like me that want to use the same flash drive with more than one computer, you could implement this registry change as a menu option. Do others think this is an option that they would use?



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