When I open a remote/encrypted folder in Windows file explorer, IceDrive immediately sends these files to my cache location, where they are stored as TMP files (indicated by a blue arrow). I have remote folders that contain really big files (several GB each), so when I open such a folder it takes a pretty long time to cache all those big files.
I know I can abort this file caching process, but I don’t want it to happen in the first place. Is it possible to prevent IceDrive from caching each and every file, or can at least certain file types be prevented from being turned into TMP files that land in my cache location?
My cache location now contains hundreds of TMP files and has a size of several GB. Although Economical caching is enabled, IceDrive does not remove these TMP files automatically. I do hope it is possible somehow not to create so many big TMP files in my cache location.
By the way, even if I manually clear cache, some small files, usually 0 KB files, will not be cleared by IceDrive.
In order for the drive mounted app to upload it does have to utilise local cache. Without this process the drive app cannot upload your file. Any cache files that are not in use will be cleared when you clear the cache. If they are still present then it is likely that they are still in use by the app for uploading to the cloud.
The thing is that the local files in questions have already been uploaded. This “cache flooding” only happens if I open an encrypted folder in Windows Explorer. Although all the files in that folder have already been uploaded, they are cached even though the files have not changed at all. This did not happen with previous versions of IceDrive (v2.xx).
I found the TMP files to be a problem and I allocated a new sector (drive) on my Windows 10 hard drive largely for that purpose and to store other content which does not require a backup. I want my C:\ drive to be pristine with minimal content as my restore strategy is to simply backup C:\ and just do a simple C:\restore.
With the new allocated drive, go to settings and change the location of the cache location to this new drive sector. You will need to determine your max allocation that you generally use.
Also, click on “Economical Caching” and it will start to reduce the tmp files in that folder. This approach has worked very well for me.
I quit IceDrive not long ago because of massive issues with the Sync feature on the desktop App, it was not running the way it should, and others also complained as well, and i tried to fix the issues as per instructions, but it just seemed like too many bugs to trust it.
I moved over to Sync, which uses a dedicated Folder on your hard drive rather than have to Mount a fake partition like we do with IceDrive, and that Sync storage service was so buggy that many users were walking away from it, so i came back to IceDrive because i love the Mounted Partition method, but i use an external Syncing tool now to run my daily sync jobs from my encrypted/mounted storage SSD to my IveDrive mounted partition, it is called SyncBackFree, it will solve all your Syncing issues like it did for me.
BTW, i make it a habit that whenever i close my laptop, i just clear the Cache folder in my Desktop App first.
