Keep your caches out of my Documents.

[C.N.]

On modern Windows systems Documents are automatically set to backup to OneDrive. This would normally be excellent for me, because the free storage space offered by Microsoft is enough for my own needs, and I do want that backup.

However, there stuff in my Document folder that I don't want there, and haven't added there myself. The culprits behind this littering is mostly games. Of these the Paradox Games folder takes up almost a 1 GB on my drive. This is not acceptable, especially since a big part of that is the CK3 shadercache. Caches belong in AppData, not Documents.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

Moved to Paradox General Discussion

 

[C.N.]

Does Johan even read feedback in this forum?

 

[Kazanov]

Does Johan even read feedback in this forum?

Yes, he does from time to time. But I don't think he has any relation with the CK3 team, he is the EU5 guy.

 

[C.N.]

Yes, he does from time to time. But I don't think he has any relation with the CK3 team, he is the EU5 guy.

I posted it in the project Caesar forums, so that the new game shouldn't make the same mistake. After all I would expect the cache files to grow larger and larger for each game.

 

[SAS]

On modern Windows systems Documents are automatically set to backup to OneDrive. This would normally be excellent for me, because the free storage space offered by Microsoft is enough for my own needs, and I do want that backup.

However, there stuff in my Document folder that I don't want there, and haven't added there myself. The culprits behind this littering is mostly games. Of these the Paradox Games folder takes up almost a 1 GB on my drive. This is not acceptable, especially since a big part of that is the CK3 shadercache. Caches belong in AppData, not Documents.

You can change your settings so these files stay locally on your machine.

 

[C.N.]

You can change your settings so these files stay locally on your machine.

How do I do that? I have searched and searched but can't find anything about that online.

 

[Nikolai II]

How do I do that? I have searched and searched but can't find anything about that online.

Something like this should work both ways?

Choose which OneDrive folders to sync to your computer - Microsoft Support

Learn how to choose which OneDrive files and folders you want to sync to your computer.

support.microsoft.com

(You might also be able to right click on the folder and set it directly that way)

 

[Icchan]

You can change your settings so these files stay locally on your machine.

You can't actually. You can prevent them from being downloaded from OneDrive cloud, but if Documents folder is selected for backup, everything in it will get back upped to OneDrive.

 

[Ferrous Will]

How to prevent a folder from being synced on OneDrive?

I recently downloaded a very large amount of images for a Machine Learning project. OneDrive is going a little bit crazy about it and I would like it to "ignore" the folder. Ideally, the ...

superuser.com

It would appear to be possible?

Edit: nvm, the solution seems extension based.

 

[CivMasters]

This is still a problem - and an increasing one.

Victoria 3 has an enormous 2,5 GB shadercache. This alone wastes half of the free OneDrive tier.

This should be kept out of my Documents folder. The appropriate folder for this is ProgramData or AppData/Local, which are not synced to OneDrive.

Microsoft, with its almighty wisdom, does not allow for the exclusion of folders form the goddamned OneDrive sync. The "workaround" is bugging the state and permanently having an error thrown. This is not acceptable.