[Photo] Setting Cache Location

[influxx]

Hi guys

I ran into an ongoing problem this week that I cannot find a solution to. I rarely work in hires print files so this is not something I'd come across regularly but this week it became an issue.

A couple of times Photo came to a grinding halt trying to run a process, so I had to force quit and lose a little bit of work (more on this later). Each time it turns out my System drive was down to 60MB of available space. Having dug around I found massive temp files and saved backups (among other storage hogging junk). After a good clear out I was able to continue (until it happened again).

So now I have to keep a Finder window open to keep an eye on available space. Annoying.

So.

In the other photo style program from the other unnameable A company, you would be able to set a scratch disc location. This would be most preferable as I keep a lean System drive but have masses of project and cache drive space. I would not run into the problem if I was able to write temp files to those places.

Any idea if this is an option anywhere. I looked around the prefs window and the manual but found no reference to it.

Also, when I crashed I was led to believe I would be given an opportunity to return to any recovered files when I launch again. This did not happen despite there being auto saved files in my Application Support folders, all of which timestamped close to the moment of crash. Any particular way to make sure this works as advertised?

Thanks!!

[R C-R]

There is no option to use a scratch disk in Affinity.

[influxx]

On 4/9/2025 at 4:02 PM, R C-R said:

There is no option to use a scratch disk in Affinity.

Bummer. Thanks. Feature request incomiong