General Use Question (not so much tech support) Topic is solved

[Zafaron]

I recently bought Primo Cache to help speed up some work flow. Is there any way to prioritize which directories get cached? Or does it just cache whatever was read last? Generally I want to speed up work done in a few different directories, but not all that concerned about the rest of the drive. It could be that I should have bought Ram Disk, I'm just not certain.

[Jaga]

The best way I found to make sure Primocache spends it's resources/time on just a few directories, is to put those files on a separate drive and make symbolic links from their original folder locations to the new location on the separate drive. There's currently no way to force specific content into the cache.

Ramdisk would be okay too, but you risk losing recent changes to data (or having a corrupt image). From that perspective, I see it as slightly more volatile than Primocache. Overall Primocache is more flexible, and a better solution provided you can setup your architecture to support your needs.

[Zafaron]

Setting up a new drive/partition might work for what I want to do, will have to test that out. Some of the files are in the user directory. I haven't played with symbolic links very much but as you said they might be the solution to the problem.

Thanks for all the info.

[Jaga]

Symlinks will work fine for user directories if that's what you need to move.