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win10 cache directory
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* Location of Win10 freda cache or data directory?
* Can this location be changed? and how?


btw love your app  Cool
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Freda keeps its data in the standard folder structure that all Microsoft Store apps have to follow. If your username is NAME then Freda's data will be in a folder with a name like C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\5957Turnipsoft.freda_ypmq2qh89vmny\LocalState

The subfolder called 'bookcache' holds all the book files that Freda has downloaded.
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(01-10-2021, 08:40 PM)jim_chapman Wrote: Freda keeps its data in the standard folder structure that all Microsoft Store apps have to follow.  If your username is NAME then Freda's data will be in a folder with a name like C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\5957Turnipsoft.freda_ypmq2qh89vmny\LocalState

The subfolder called 'bookcache' holds all the book files that Freda has downloaded.

Is there a way to translate the long indecipherable file names in this folder to readable ebook names?
Thank you
Cliff 
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(09-30-2021, 02:28 PM)Cliff Wrote:
(01-10-2021, 08:40 PM)jim_chapman Wrote: Freda keeps its data in the standard folder structure that all Microsoft Store apps have to follow.  If your username is NAME then Freda's data will be in a folder with a name like C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\5957Turnipsoft.freda_ypmq2qh89vmny\LocalState

The subfolder called 'bookcache' holds all the book files that Freda has downloaded.

Is there a way to translate the long indecipherable file names in this folder to readable ebook names?
Thank you
Cliff 

No.  The lookup from those UUID codes into book names is maintained in Freda's internal data store.  If you want to obtain copies all of Freda's book files, with readable book names, you should use the app's 'backup' function to do that.
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(09-30-2021, 05:26 PM)jim_chapman Wrote:
(09-30-2021, 02:28 PM)Cliff Wrote:
(01-10-2021, 08:40 PM)jim_chapman Wrote: Freda keeps its data in the standard folder structure that all Microsoft Store apps have to follow.  If your username is NAME then Freda's data will be in a folder with a name like C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\5957Turnipsoft.freda_ypmq2qh89vmny\LocalState

The subfolder called 'bookcache' holds all the book files that Freda has downloaded.

Is there a way to translate the long indecipherable file names in this folder to readable ebook names?
Thank you
Cliff 

No.  The lookup from those UUID codes into book names is maintained in Freda's internal data store.  If you want to obtain copies all of Freda's book files, with readable book names, you should use the app's 'backup' function to do that.
Bummer... not the answer I was hoping for, but thank you for responding.
Cliff
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(01-10-2021, 08:40 PM)jim_chapman Wrote: Freda keeps its data in the standard folder structure that all Microsoft Store apps have to follow.  If your username is NAME then Freda's data will be in a folder with a name like C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\5957Turnipsoft.freda_ypmq2qh89vmny\LocalState

The subfolder called 'bookcache' holds all the book files that Freda has downloaded.

I just recently discovered your beautiful app, but was disappointed to see that it -- like some other notable software applications -- can potentially create serious and annoying bloat in one's AppData directory.

Might there be a way to optionally allow the user to choose his/her own, more convenient, location for (at least) the 'bookcache' directory -- while still staying within Microsoft's requirements for Store apps (perhaps by creating a directory-shortcut inside the AppData subtree)?
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(12-09-2021, 03:07 PM)Yosi Wrote:
(01-10-2021, 08:40 PM)jim_chapman Wrote: Freda keeps its data in the standard folder structure that all Microsoft Store apps have to follow.  If your username is NAME then Freda's data will be in a folder with a name like C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\5957Turnipsoft.freda_ypmq2qh89vmny\LocalState

The subfolder called 'bookcache' holds all the book files that Freda has downloaded.

I just recently discovered your beautiful app, but was disappointed to see that it -- like some other notable software applications -- can potentially create serious and annoying bloat in one's AppData directory.

Might there be a way to optionally allow the user to choose his/her own, more convenient, location for (at least) the 'bookcache' directory -- while still staying within Microsoft's requirements for Store apps (perhaps by creating a directory-shortcut inside the AppData subtree)?

Because of the way that the 'partial trust sandbox' for Windows UWP/Store Apps works, I don't think there's any way to do this in the current version of Freda.  I think that, as part the forthcoming future framework for Windows app development (WinUI 3, .NET 5/6, MAUI ...), Microsoft are going to relax these limitations.  I will be rebuilding Freda using this new setup, so some time (some months from now), it might be possible to do something about this.
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