I just figured out how to make symbolic links...
My 3 player scenes run poky at times.. I just thought it was just due to how much stuff is in my scenes with everything else going on.
I finally realized my external drive was to blame.. its not SSD (everything is in my external drive. Unity, Vam,Unreal, blender. My VaM cache was in it as well. .. The external drive was to blame for VaMs pokyness.. and the fact that I had way too much stuff in there lol.. While editing a new vid in blender with the new cache set up I noticed the frame rate dropped to 2 fps.. I changed the Cache to the ssd drive (C) and it was a night and day difference in how blender worked .
I took that a step further and changed the cache location for VaM also on that SSD disc. The Scenes were also way better in terms of no choppiness and faster loading time.
This morning I also created symbolic links using the cmd prompt and run as administrator on my SSD drive.
This method allowed me to move close to 300 gigs off of the VaM folder.... my chache has been averaging 160 gigs too
You will need to Create a folder for where the link will be. My Addon folder has extra folders for the creators I have the most items in.. It was 180 gigs of just clothes lol...
Chat GPT walked me though this. Here are the command lines.
Please be sure to make a Back Up copy of anything you'll move first!
The new location and whats in it need to be there before you make the link and the original folders/files... vars, need to be deleted so..... Please back up your stuff someplace outside of VaM First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This might take a while so be patient! Overall this took close to 4 hours lol!
Here's the line, and below is an explanation of what is what...
mklink /D "D:\elfs\VaM\AddonPackages\Eros" "C:\VamExtras\Eros"
Your folder organization is probably different from mine.. but anyway
I created separate folders within the Addon folder for creators I have a lot of stuff from.
elfs is the name of the folder VaM was in. Eros is the creator folders name.. I ended up moving 10 folders from within the addon folder this way..
VamExtras is what I called the new location and stuck the folders I wanted linked in there.
After your back up is done, also copy them into the new locations spot.
Open up txt or some kind of word editor and just copy paste the line somewhere a bunch of times being sure to
change up the names and folder names appropriatly to how you had yours set up..
open up the command line and right click run as administrator...
you have to go 1 at a time. right click copy
in the command line right click again, press enter... do that for all of what ever you're moving and you're set
you can close it when you're done.. it's saved.
Anything you add later related to what you moved has to also go in the new location from now on too.
I cant stress enough to back up your stuff.. some of use who have been patrons to other members for a while probably have a mall in their computer and 100's of dollars spent... lmao.
