Nuke Tempo Folder

[dunkel3d]

i saw that nuke in maya need a c:\temp\nuke folder to save temporary files.
this folder seems always to grow.
is there a way to tell nuke to empty the folder when i quit nuke.... or do i have to delete files by hands?
thanks

[user_deleted]

no there is now way of doing that and it wouldn't make much sense either as your cache is meant to speed up interactivity and deleting it every time you close Nuke would mean next time you open it again your script(s) will be slower again until the cache has been built up again.
If you can't afford to use the cache because of disk space limitations you can just disable it which will make interactivity a lot slower.
I would highly recommend to always have enough disk space to hold at least 5g of cache at any time (I always have mine set to 20g).

cheers,
frank

[leach]

Hey! It is a good question. It is not a solution of the problem to disable caching. I think it will be clever for developers to write some option for this.

If your script is so complex that it loads very long time without cache, than having cache won't help you too much. It is better to cut your script on smaller pieces. This will give you ability to work in realtime and avoid some mistakes, that can happen in complex scripts. And the second way is to upgrade your hardware.

I think that it will be useful option. Especialy for those who work with many small scripts.

[user_deleted]

if you really wanted to do that than you could hook up a tcl command so you can delete the cache dir from the menu.
I still don't think you quite understand the concept of caching though. There is a maximum size you can specify for the temp files and if nuke hits the max it will start overwriting the oldest files to not use up more space than specified by the user. Caching will make even complex scripts fast and will also help when you're working with many small scripts as you will re-use pre-computed data even between sessions.
The only reasons I can see to delete the cache files is when you wither run out of disk space and need is for other data/applications or if the cached data is corrupted for some reason.
It makes no sense whatsoever to delete it otherwise as all you're doing is slowing yourself down.