Picture Cache

Try and delete them via DOS 


Seriously!


Type 'cmd' in the run box - you should  know the rest

You need to know where your Picture Cache is located

Mine is in C:\Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache

From your Start menu select Run
type cmd in the box to get to a DOS shell
type cd c:\"Cakewalk Projects"\Picture Cache" (or wherever your cache is located)

You should now be in the cache folder

Type del *.*


This should do it
Type exit to escape

I've just been reminding myself how to do this via the shell cmd... just one important thing to remember, now that we are allowed to put a space in our folder names (back in MSDOS 5 you were only allowed eight characters, no spaces or special characters). As Jonesey has demonstrated, you need to place any folder name that has spaces in it (or directory as they used to be called) in between quotation marks (although there is one missing in the above example at the start of Picture).

An interesting side note, and something I've only just noticed about my new laptop, you can now use a forward slash, as well as a back slash, when using the CD (Current Directory) command. Old MSDOS only allowed the use of the back slash, if I remember correctly. My laptop keyboard doesn't have a back slash, presumably to save space on the keyboard...

Thanks Synkrotron. It worked even with the missing quotation mark.

pgw


I use Ccleaner & have it set up to clear the Pic cache-folder = just 3 mouse-clicks once it´s set up. Under "include" I have "C:\Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache\*.*"

Pgw, thanx for this tip. I never thought about using Ccleaner this way.

You´re welcome guys, it´s what the forum is about - sharing useful info/tips, I´ve learned tons of stuff here.

because it is a "cache" where all the waveform pictures are stored. It saves Sonar a little bit of time when displaying the waves in Track view. Otherwise, Sonar would have to redraw the waveforms every time you opened a project.

That's how I understand it anyway.