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Old 06-11-2021, 10:13 PM   #6016
SilentShadow123
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Originally Posted by kim67255 View Post
I'm trying to get the browser cache feature to work. I can't even find my cache file. I cleared the browser cache. That didn't do anything.

I'm so lost. I've read the directions to do this but it's all above my head. In step 1, it says to find my cache directory but I can't even find that. I have an LG laptop. The directions where for a Mac.

I know enough about Calibre to load my stories/books, add columns ect. I've changed things in the personal ini. But now I'm getting this message when I try to update a story. The message is
Directory does not contain a known browser cache type: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32'

I took out what I put in and I'm still getting the same error.

I know I sound like a moron, but I need help. Several of you have helped in the past and have been very patient with me. Any help would help. Thanks in advance.
As someone who is not tech-savvy, I understand how difficult this is. I got it to work eventually through a series of steps I followed. I can try to help you out the best I can, but please keep in mind that this is likely out of my jurisdiction and this is the way I got it to work.

1. Find your browser cache location. For mine, I have a Mac and my browser is Chrome. From the list given to us on https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...erCacheFeature, I located it to be:
#browser_cache_path:/Users/your.user/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache

For your LG Laptop which likely runs Windows, if you use the browser Chrome, then your location would be either of these two:

browser_cache_path:C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local \Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
browser_cache_path:C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local \Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1\Cache

For Firefox: browser_cache_path:C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local \Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ZjwI7Fo4.default\cache2

Just make sure to choose the appropriate option for your location, and replace "YourUser" with your windows username.

2. After you've found the right location enter it below [defaults] in personal.ini.

The top part of my code looks like this:
[defaults]
browser_cache_path:/Users/YourUser/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache
## [defaults] section applies to all formats and sites but may be
## overridden at several levels. Example:

3. Last step is to copy in these lines of code near the end of the personal.ini code under [overrides]:

[www.fanfiction.net]
##the following line tells FFF to use the browser cache when set to true
use_browser_cache:true
##the following line limits FFF to use cache entries no older than the ##number of hours shown
##(in this case, cached items no 4 hours or less old).
browser_cache_age_limit:4.0
use_browser_cache_only:true

(You don't have to add in the comments if you don't want to. They're just a personal preference of mine.)

Last edited by SilentShadow123; 06-11-2021 at 10:17 PM.
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