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    Cache Folder In The Demo

    DarklingDarkling Posts: 6,327 Member
    edited August 2014 in PC - Technical Discussions
    There is a sub-folder labeled "cache" inside my Demo folder. Right now it is over 24 MBs and has 1,409 items inside. Most of them are JPEG images of sim households but there are also several files listed at the bottom of the folder.

    What are these images? And, not that I'm going to do it now, is it safe to delete them?
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      blunote00blunote00 Posts: 18,476 Member
      I have no clue @Darkling because the I haven't messed with any files in the CAS Demo folder. I have only viewed the two (.sgr) files in the program files to check mostly graphics card levels. ;)

      Maybe one of the modders can come along and tell you for sure. :)
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      DarklingDarkling Posts: 6,327 Member
      @blunote00, thanks for the reply. :) I was curious but I have no intention of messing with it at this point, either. You know my motto: "If it ain't broke, leave it the hell alone!"
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      blunote00blunote00 Posts: 18,476 Member
      Darkling wrote: »
      @blunote00, thanks for the reply. :) I was curious but I have no intention of messing with it at this point, either. You know my motto: "If it ain't broke, leave it the hell alone!"
      I know what you mean. ;)

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      jimmysnanjimmysnan Posts: 8,303 Member
      So hell does not become plum? I still can't get over t.i.t.l.e is "plummed"
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      duck74duck74 Posts: 686 Member
      Feel free to delete your cache. It is only there so the game doesn't have to use the internet to load the pictures and some data.
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      dark5id3dark5id3 Posts: 2,476 Member
      Darkling wrote: »
      There is a sub-folder labeled "cache" inside my Demo folder. Right now it is over 24 MBs and has 1,409 items inside. Most of them are JPEG images of sim households but there are also several files listed at the bottom of the folder.

      What are these images? And, not that I'm going to do it now, is it safe to delete them?

      Hi Dark and Blu hugging-smiley-Huggalo.gif

      That's odd because my cache folder is empty.
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      DarklingDarkling Posts: 6,327 Member
      edited August 2014
      dark5id3 wrote: »
      Darkling wrote: »
      There is a sub-folder labeled "cache" inside my Demo folder. Right now it is over 24 MBs and has 1,409 items inside. Most of them are JPEG images of sim households but there are also several files listed at the bottom of the folder.

      What are these images? And, not that I'm going to do it now, is it safe to delete them?

      Hi Dark and Blu hugging-smiley-Huggalo.gif

      That's odd because my cache folder is empty.

      Hey Dark!!!

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      It is odd because I just checked mine and suddenly it's empty too. Weird. I did open and shut the game this morning briefly to test out some CC I downloaded but didn't go into the Gallery. I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
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      DarklingDarkling Posts: 6,327 Member
      edited August 2014
      @jimmysnan: The plumming censor here makes no plumming sense! :)

      @duck74: I'll keep that in mind for the future but apparently it decided to delete itself...not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

      *looks around for Skynet*
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      jimmysnanjimmysnan Posts: 8,303 Member
      Darkling wrote: »
      @jimmysnan: The plumming censor here makes no plumming sense! :)

      @duck74: I'll keep that in mind for the future but apparently it decided to delete itself...not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

      *looks around for Skynet*


      @Darkling you are right it does not.
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      jimmysnanjimmysnan Posts: 8,303 Member
      edited August 2014
      My cache file is full of all kinds of pictures!!! Is that bad? I got a new rank, I can't keep up this ranking/ awards business gets old fast! I am tired of it already, never paid much attention to it in the sims 3, don't really care to now, wish we could opt out of it!
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      blunote00blunote00 Posts: 18,476 Member
      jimmysnan wrote: »
      My cache file is full of all kinds of pictures!!! Is that bad? I got a new rank, I can't keep up this ranking/ awards business gets old fast! I am tired of it already, never paid much attention to it in the sims 3, don't really care to now, wish we could opt out of it!
      Nan mine is as it was and full of images. However, I haven't been in the CAS Demo since July 30th.
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      zorba2357zorba2357 Posts: 6,103 Member
      edited August 2014
      I just noticed mine is full of pics. Randomly I found Johnny Depp, a gallery creation. I have not Downloaded him. It just seems to be pics from the gallery. Maybe it appears in your cache When you go into the gallery?

      Edit: Remember how all those ton of sims 3 store stuff thumbnails was kept in the sims folder (flashback) , stuff you may not even own yet, but it was really hard to get rid of the ton of thumbnails and they just kept coming back?
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      EvalenEvalen Posts: 10,223 Member
      Darkling wrote: »
      There is a sub-folder labeled "cache" inside my Demo folder. Right now it is over 24 MBs and has 1,409 items inside. Most of them are JPEG images of sim households but there are also several files listed at the bottom of the folder.

      What are these images? And, not that I'm going to do it now, is it safe to delete them?
      Darkling wrote: »
      There is a sub-folder labeled "cache" inside my Demo folder. Right now it is over 24 MBs and has 1,409 items inside. Most of them are JPEG images of sim households but there are also several files listed at the bottom of the folder.

      What are these images? And, not that I'm going to do it now, is it safe to delete them?
      Darkling, are they sims you made. I just went to EA folder and then Demo folder and then Cache and I have nothing in it.
      I have only made 5 sims and they are saved in my library only.
      Am I looking in the right place.

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      Hell9997Hell9997 Posts: 357 Member
      The cache folder is where the game stores images from the gallery as you browse through it. It prevents the game from having to download the images every time you go to view them. This will be for any creation you see on the screen in the gallery - Not just ones you download. Think of it as the cache/temporary internet files in your web browser. Deleting the contents of the folder is fine, the game will just have to download them again if/when you come across them again in the gallery.

      Hope this helps :)
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      EvalenEvalen Posts: 10,223 Member
      Hell9997 wrote: »
      The cache folder is where the game stores images from the gallery as you browse through it. It prevents the game from having to download the images every time you go to view them. This will be for any creation you see on the screen in the gallery - Not just ones you download. Think of it as the cache/temporary internet files in your web browser. Deleting the contents of the folder is fine, the game will just have to download them again if/when you come across them again in the gallery.<br />
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      Hope this helps :)

      I found them , I only have EA sims that I can see, the ones I made do not show a picture, it says temp with a number.
      Is this right. thought maybe the pictures would show up after the game comes out. I don't kow

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      zorba2357zorba2357 Posts: 6,103 Member
      Hell9997 wrote: »
      The cache folder is where the game stores images from the gallery as you browse through it. It prevents the game from having to download the images every time you go to view them. This will be for any creation you see on the screen in the gallery - Not just ones you download. Think of it as the cache/temporary internet files in your web browser. Deleting the contents of the folder is fine, the game will just have to download them again if/when you come across them again in the gallery.<br />
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      Hope this helps :)

      Thank you, that does explain it.

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      DarklingDarkling Posts: 6,327 Member
      @Evalen: Thanks for the reply and sorry for the late response. A few of mine could have been in there as I have uploaded a few sims but there were over 1400 images the first time I opened it up so I was a bit overwhelmed. :confounded:

      @Hell9997: That explains why the folder was full when I opened the Gallery and empty when I hadn't. Thanks! :)
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