Updated Move Caches To SD Card!

[birdman81484]

Move Caches to FAT32 SD Card

NOTE: IF YOU ARE ENTERING THESE COMMANDS AFTER A WIPE AND HAVE NOT YET USED ANY OF THE APPLICATIONS LISTED BELOW. "rm -R" lines are not necessary. If you tried them it would return and error stating the file or directory does not exist. This is because a cache has not been created. This is because you have not yet browsed anything in order to force the system to create a cache or cache directory. In other words you cannot remove(rm = remove) what is not there.

All others, it matters not if you use the "rm -R" commands.If you have a cache on the phone this command is simply removing your cache from the phone. This frees up phone memory so you might as well try it. If you get an error message stating the file or directory does not exist, disregard it. It simply means that you have not used the cache for that application and therefore a cache or cache directory has not been created by the system. In other words you cannot remove(rm = remove) what is not there.

To keep your SD card from cluttering up with multiple cache stores... we recommend first adding a cache and files folder:
mkdir /sdcard/cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/files

NOTE: if you choose to make all of these folders seperate on the SD card instead, then remove the "/cache" on each "mkdir" and "ln -s" steps below




Browser Cache


cd /data/data/com.android.browser/cache
rm -R webviewCache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/webviewCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/webviewCache webviewCache


Google Maps


cd /data/data/com.google.android.apps.maps
rm -R files
mkdir /sdcard/cache/files/maps
ln -s /sdcard/cache/files/maps files

Google StreetView



cd /data/data/com.google.android.street
rm -R cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/streetCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/streetCache cache


Market Cache


cd /data/data/com.android.vending
rm -R cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/marketCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/marketCache cache


imeem Cache


cd /data/data/com.imeem.gynoid
rm -R cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/imeemCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/imeemCache cache


Tunewiki Cache


cd /data/data/com.tunewiki.lyricplayer.android/cache
rm -R webviewCache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/tunewikiCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/tunewikiCache webviewCache


Steel Browser Cache


cd /data/data/com.kolbysoft.steel/cache
rm -R webviewCache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/steelCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/steelCache webviewCache

*NOTE*: If the above code does not work for steel browser because there is no cache folder try this:

cd /data/data/com.kolbysoft.steel
mkdir cache
cd cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/steelCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/steelCache webviewCache


MeetMe Cache


cd /data/data/com.stylem.meetme
rm -R cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/meetmeCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/meetmeCache cache


MySpace

cd /data/data/com.myspace.android
mkdir /system/sd/cache/files/myspace
rm -R files
ln -s /sdcard/cache/files/myspace files

Gmail

cd /data/data/com.google.android.gm/cache
rm -R webviewCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/webviewCache webviewCache

Voice Search

cd /data/data/com.google.android.voicesearch/cache
rm -R webviewCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/webviewCache webviewCache

My Maps Editor
cd /data/data/com.google.android.apps.mymaps/cache
rm -R webviewCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/webviewCache webviewCache

[constellanation]

Ooooohhh. I just noticed the google maps cache move, I see a trip to the terminal coming up for me soon!

And I can't wait for the youtube cache move as well!

Thanks for the info birdie!

[birdman81484]

Can we sticky this?

[omnibot]

thanks, this is great!


i'm getting an error on the maps move after the cp command.

cp: cannot preserve ownership of '/sdcard/cache/files/maps

thoughts?

[birdman81484]

thanks, this is great!


i'm getting an error on the maps move after the cp command.

cp: cannot preserve ownership of '/sdcard/cache/files/maps

thoughts?

I got that too. I think it is part of the process or possibly unnecessary. I did it anyway. It doesn't seem to hurt anything and maybe required. I went into Google maps and routed some directions. Then I went to the maps folder on the sd card and it had data in it, so I ASSume it's working. If this isn't the case for you let me know and I will track down the word on it.

[ultra spikey]

can we sticky this?

......................

+1

[birdman81484]

I just wanted to dig this up so you day walkers could get an eye on this...

[constellanation]

and they are all updated to my blog.


hey birdo, go check the link at the bottom of that blog, you might dig where it's going!

[birdman81484]

and they are all updated to my blog.


hey birdo, go check the link at the bottom of that blog, you might dig where it's going!

Wooooooow. That's HUGE. That is exactly what people who use this site need!. From the looks of it I can make the script with the updated script/symlinks from the blog and we can post the necessary files for saving those scripts in the proper format and running them on the sd card. Noobs everywhere are going to being caching from their sd cards.

[constellanation]

yeah, i'll definitely be adding all that information to the blog, once it's got all the caches added to it.

I thought you'd like it.