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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by iamben on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:34AM (#30115880)
Interesting. So potentially downloading the entire browser cache each time? Goodness.
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by JackFr on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:54AM (#30116210)
Even better - Java devs who use the default settings for Maven will have their entire local repo copied over the network.

At my company people would remotely log in on Sunday evenings to avoid the hou long wait while a few hundred gigs get copied across the network. Why not chnage the location of the local repo, you ask? Of course our machines are locked down and we have no access to the local drive...

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by formerly_proven on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:15AM (#30116566)
That's the difference between %APPDATA% (AppData/Roaming) and %LOCALAPPDATA% (AppData/Local). Caches should go into local appdata, or %TEMP% if you're feeling spicy.
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by Yoric on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:53AM (#30116183)
I remember "fixing" the university's computers by preventing the browser cache from being downloaded. at every Windows startup. That was maybe 15 years ago?
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