I'm thinking of installing Win 8 and dual booting with Win 7 then gradually going through the tedious business of loading programmes onto Win 8.  On checking whether I had sufficient space on my C drive I found Qimage RAW cache was in two folders:  I assumed these were duplicates and taking up more space than necessary on my 224Gb SSD C drive.  Both sets of RAW cache and thumbnails include those from today’s pictures.  The two folders are:

C/ProgramData/ddisoftware/Qimage with a list of folders including RAW cache and thumbnails. 
C/Users/All users/ddisoftware/Qimage with a similar list of folders including Rawcache and thumbnails.

Looking in the Utilities tab Qimage says it is using ProgramData (not Users) for the location of RAW cache and thumbs.
“OK,” I thought.  “I’ll delete the one in the C/Users folder.”  Both disappeared and both re-appeared when I restored from the Recycle bin.  Are they actually the same set of folders just with different routes to get to them?

If/When I dual boot Win 7 and Win 8 I would want to put the RAW cache on a different drive.  I know I can do that, indeed I’ve done it before.  Can I use the same location for both Win 7 and Win 8?  Then I won’t have two sets of RAW cache which take up significant disc space.

Thanks

Sandy

Sandy,

Good question.  c:\programdata is the "real" folder.  c:\users\All Users is a symbolic link to c:\programdata.  So these two locations and everything in them are the same (one) place:

c:\programdata
c:\users\All Users

If you open both of those locations you'll notice it's not just Qimage or the cache folder that's the same.  Everything from all companies and all folders underneath are the same because they are the same place.  There is only one real location and, as Fred said, two ways to access it so disk space isn't doubled.

Mike

Sandy,
I have a dual boot system.
On turning on the machine, I get my offer, default to W7 or arrow to W8.
Either choice make that one Windows the C: drive.... so bottom line, you will have a CACHE for each.

This is strictly my opinion and experience.... not necessarily the same for you or anyone else.

It was unnecessarily tedious. In the end it took longer for me to learn W7 and wean myself from XP.
I was so happy with XP, and I was the boss of the computer.

Windows 7 is even better than XP by a lot, and along came W8.
I installed W8 in place of XP.
I installed W8 and found it was a W7 engine with a "Smart Phone" approach to using it.  Icons and more Icons screens that change like I was on an iPHONE or a DROID phone.... tons of things popping up in front of my face like I was a teen ager being tempted to buy... toys and apps to to play music and RAP videos.

I personally hated it. But there is a W7 "SHELL". It installs in W8 and lets me run 8 in my comfortable mode.
My wife recently bought a new computer. We insisted on W7, and they were happy to comply. 

I keep W 8.1 on my dual boot system to be able to check any issue that a Qimage user may claim shows up in his W8 machine.
Otherwise, ..... not for me.

Another issue I faced was dual email... dual calendars,,, dual variables, dual bookmarks.... so Dual became a Duel.
So I use one system and try to learn it so I am the boss of the computer again.
PS. Reality Check.
The computer is like your cat.   Just when you think it's your cat, it reminds you: Only because it lets you be.

 
Fred