Its there a way to clean cache faster?

[kenhirai]

the cache folder is ridiculously huge, what if something needs to move server? Its going to endless time to transfer??? Oh my.

[kenhirai]

48,000 files... this is crazy

[Ricky B]

I have moved 6GB of thumbs zipped and unzipped in the new server to save my DB lol never never again thats really long to transfer

[admin]

There's no need to transfer cache files. Script can create it again at new server.

[Ricky B]

So when i have done it, it was because i was kicked out from a hosthing by reason (too much node) and to put the site rapiddly online on the newserver.

It can take long time to crop 6gb of thumbs again

[admin]

Yes, it definitely takes time to transfer 6gb )

[kenhirai]

is there anyway to stop creating new cache files? or less cache?

[admin]

Why ?

[Gradwank]

Somewhat related --- how long does cache last for?

I updated URL to some thumbs directly in DB.

If I set cookie, the thumbs go to new URL.

I did this almsot 24 hours ago - seems like the 900 second cache time i set in settings should have expired.

Will it eventually expire the old cache? Or do I need to take some action.

[admin]

at what url ?