Market Cache (only) on the SD Card

[jroid]

hey so I just Modded to RC30 and have root, and I love it so now I wanna put my market cache to my SD card but not my browser cache. how do I do it? what are the commands? thanks guys

[birdman81484]

Move Market Cache to SDCard: By grickson from XDA
cd /data/data/com.android.vending
rm -R cache
mkdir /sdcard/cache/
mkdir /sdcard/cache/marketCache
ln -s /sdcard/cache/marketCache cache

[aaronkt]

thanks, i didnt think i had a reason to do it but might as well.

[jroid]

ok so now my only question after doing this would be, how would I check if this actually is saving to the sd card. I see the market cache folder on the sd card so if its working properly it should have info in the folder right? i also noticed in manage apps that my market size is waay down to 52 kb.

[mark925]

ok so now my only question after doing this would be, how would I check if this actually is saving to the sd card. I see the market cache folder on the sd card so if its working properly it should have info in the folder right? i also noticed in manage apps that my market size is waay down to 52 kb.

Do this:
Go into the terminal emulator. Change to the directory that you told it to cache into. Then "ls".

[constellanation]

or you can use astro look under sd card for the cache and see if its got aything in it after looking a bit in the market

[Robocop]

Just checked my Market cache and I'm sitting on a whopping 25 mb. I don't have the stones to root yet and I can't remember/ too lazy to check if cupcake will be addressing the issue. My ? is..... is there an easy fix without having to delete and redownload everything? My browser has been closing b/c of memory and I am having to constantly clear my browser cache and history...

[jroid]

yea it does i have a bunch of stuff in the market cache folder while the size of the market is only 52 kb now that this is done, anyone know an easy way to have all apps downloaded and run directly from the SD card?

[jroid]

wat u can do is eiither: use astro to back up all ur apps to the sd card and do a hard reset, or just download rediculusly large apps so that the market will automatically shrink down. OR u can try to get root

[Robocop]

Robocop had a memory glitch. As soon as I posted I remembered about the low disk space icon and tricking the phone into clearing the Market cache. I'm good now. As far as root goes, I'm gonna let cupcake play out and I will probably wait for an android phone that I can't resist to come out first. That way I'll be able to mod the hell out of this one without worry. I'm a chicken, I know, but I've bricked at least 3 phones before cause I couldn't resist my tinkering fetish.