[OSM-talk] JOSM should delete image caches on exit

[hbogner]

No it should not delete cache on exit!!!

Possibility to chose that would be OK, but automatic delete would be 
terrible.

On 01/12/2014 04:04 AM, Tom Taylor wrote:
> I started a virus scan a couple of days ago and wondered why scanning
> seemed to hang up on a particular file. Investigating further I found it
> was a folder -- of cached Bing images dating back from the first days of
> my remote mapping activity to the present. There were 450,000 of them!
> It has taken me two days running at 100% computer utilization much of
> the time to get rid of them. (Maybe I did it wrong. Simply deleting the
> containing folder containing the last 150,000 just took a couple of
> minutes.)
>
> Caching images for a given session makes lots of sense, but leaving them
> forever really does not. How do I put a request in to the JOSM
> developers to ensure that images caches are deleted upon exit from JOSM?
>
> Tom Taylor
> TomT5454