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You can set the location of the cache in advanced settings IIRC.

• mikeash 10y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out. Even ignoring the excessive writes, it'll be nice to have the cache take up space on my vast spinny drive rather than on my somewhat tight SSD.
  • cosmie 10y ago
    The folder isn't as large as the IO usage makes it out to be. The entire PersistentCache directory is only ~104MB on my drive, even with >300GB written in the last few days
    • mikeash 10y ago
      Good to know. I assumed it would not be dozens of GBs, but I assumed it might be one or two.
• gaia 10y ago
  It is not the cache that causes the heavy IO. It is the SQLite DB at AppData\Local\Spotify\mercury.db AppData\Local\Spotify\mercury.db-wal See http://blog.scaleprocess.net/spotify-heavy-io-problem/ http://blog.scaleprocess.net/spotify-heavy-io-problem/ Besides that, a lot of times setting a diff location for your cache does NOT move the cache. I had to use a symlink.