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Add CACHE resource type to bpy.utils.user_resource
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The bpy.utils.user_resource function takes a resource parameter, which can be chosen from [‘DATAFILES’, ‘CONFIG’, ‘SCRIPTS’, ‘AUTOSAVE’]. It would be great to have a 'CACHE' choice here too. Use cases are local caches of Blender Cloud content, or BVH/simulation caches.

On Linux and similar platforms, a possible location to return would be $HOME/.cache/blender. On Windows this might be %APPDATA%\Roaming\Blender for a regular install, and something relative to Blender's path on portable "installs". I don't know enough about MacOS to suggest something there.

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Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) created this task.Mar 4 2016, 11:16 AM
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On windows we do not want Roaming for large binary objects. The default AD policy would have these files roam with the user and for multiple gigabytes of caches this might not be a cool thing to do.

Martijn Berger (juicyfruit) added a comment.Mar 4 2016, 11:23 AM

For OS X it would be ~/Library/Application Support/Blender or something like it.

Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) added a comment.Mar 4 2016, 12:08 PM

@Martijn Berger (juicyfruit) would %APPDATA%\Local\Blender be good then?

Bastien Montagne (mont29) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.Mar 4 2016, 1:13 PM
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Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) added a comment.Mar 18 2016, 1:11 PM

This might be a nice resource to get OS-specific defaults from: https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs/blob/master/appdirs.py

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