Hi Scott,
On 4/9/07, Registration Account
My home directory contains the hidden file /.beagle . There is a subdirectory named TextCache. It currently hold 155 Subdirectories each with aprox 180 .Gzip files. This is an enormous amount of HDD space and there appears no limit to the size it will grow. Can anyone tell me its purpose.
It's used for the generation of snippets in search results. It stores the searchable textual content of documents for which it would be too slow to extract the relevant text at search-time. The use of the word "cache" here is a bit of a misnomer, because it never expires. (Well, items are removed when you delete files.) You can safely delete the directory if you want. It won't cause any problems, but you won't get snippets in search results. However, documents indexed after that point will still go into a recreated TextCache. If you're using Beagle 0.2.16.3(*), you can pass in --disable-text-cache to the beagled process; this will delete any existing text cache and prevent anything from being written to it in the future. (*) http://software.opensuse.org/download/Beagle/ Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org