Another quick question please! Is there any advantage to cleaning out your cache folders ? I have at the moment, plenty of disk space. Does keeping areas you fly regularly in the cache gain performance when you re fly that area?cheers, Mark

The cache folders can get very big and fragmented. That can slow down load times (and defragging will take forever).I fly most of the time in the UK and therefore keep my cached UK scenery. Generally, if I fly anywhere else, I just delete the part of the cache outside of the UK.Doesn't hurt to occasionally cleanup the world folder too.IAN

Another quick question please! Is there any advantage to cleaning out your cache folders ? I have at the moment, plenty of disk space. Does keeping areas you fly regularly in the cache gain performance when you re fly that area?cheers, Mark

I save tiles in geographic regions, not by service source.As a general rule I delete only regions that I visit for a quick look around or for testing - I just move an infrequently used cache/region to another drive. Any tile found in the cache, is one that doesn't have to be downloaded again... ( small performance gain)and any region that's flown over with the same tile sizes and mapping definitions (same .ini), will not need to rebuild the Scenery tiles again except in new areas. Another performance gain.Then, too, there is this: if another service "went away" as one has before, would you wish that you had kept the cache from (wherever) that you spent hours flying over?If your internet access was lost for a week or so, could you continue to fly normally "offline" because you kept your image caches?Loyd

Thanks Loyd, so I guess as long as I have the disk space, I keep the cache files. Excellent!!cheers, Mark

Can you guys tell me how I can assure that none of my cache files get deleted? Is there any "housekeeping" done without the manual execution of the cleaning programs?Thanks,-jk

Can you guys tell me how I can assure that none of my cache files get deleted? Is there any "housekeeping" done without the manual execution of the cleaning programs?Thanks,-jk

There is no automatic clearing or updating of service tile caches. Tile caches are normally viewed or cleared using the ServiceCacheBrowser. Just be VERY conscious of where that [ Erase Tiles ] button is; if you are just looking and you get in a hurry you could click this instead of [ Zoom In ] or [ Zoom Out Fully ]. An awful lot of tiles will go away VERY FAST; been there, done that!Clearing Scenery Tiles is normally accomplished using the Cleanup.bat; but it does clear ALL scenery regions. If you want to just clear a single region you can copy just the relevant lines from this .BAT file and create your own delete batch file that just clears a single ( or a few ) region(s).to clear region 0301 use just these lines in a text file like del_301.bat and save it in the TileProxy Photoreal World folder:del 0301\TEXTURE\*.BMPdel 0301\TEXTURE\*.FLATpauseAny image tile or scenery tile can, of course, be deleted manually as can an entire cache folder or Scenery Texture folder. Just be very careful that you are doing what you intend to do.Loyd

Thanks Loyd! :)-jk