How do Virtual Folders work ?
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:04 pm
Hi there,
I'm trialling v5 out, and wanted to experiment with Virtual folders. I sometimes work away from my local home setup and it'd be good to be able to do some de-duping remotely but have the bulk of the scanning done before I leave the LAN.
I set it scanning some music files on my NAS, and about 2 days later the PC ground to a halt.
Basically, DC had created 15gb of files under C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\DigitalVolcano\DuplicateCleaner and filled up the C: drive.
I was expecting DC to build some kind of offline database.. but I'm not sure why it would of expanded out to 15Gb!
I've also found that the Network browser part of DC doesn't discover my local LAN at all - yet File Explorer has no problem natively, and manually typing a UNC address works fine.
I'll try with a smaller subnet of the folders. Its mostly music and Video files.
I'd be interested in knowing more about what goes into the files at AppData\Roaming\DigitalVolcano\DuplicateCleaner.
I had to delete them to get the PC stable again I'm afraid.
And is there an option to relocate that data to another location ?
I'm trialling v5 out, and wanted to experiment with Virtual folders. I sometimes work away from my local home setup and it'd be good to be able to do some de-duping remotely but have the bulk of the scanning done before I leave the LAN.
I set it scanning some music files on my NAS, and about 2 days later the PC ground to a halt.
Basically, DC had created 15gb of files under C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\DigitalVolcano\DuplicateCleaner and filled up the C: drive.
I was expecting DC to build some kind of offline database.. but I'm not sure why it would of expanded out to 15Gb!
I've also found that the Network browser part of DC doesn't discover my local LAN at all - yet File Explorer has no problem natively, and manually typing a UNC address works fine.
I'll try with a smaller subnet of the folders. Its mostly music and Video files.
I'd be interested in knowing more about what goes into the files at AppData\Roaming\DigitalVolcano\DuplicateCleaner.
I had to delete them to get the PC stable again I'm afraid.
And is there an option to relocate that data to another location ?