From: Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>,
        "alan@effektor.ca"
	<alan@effektor.ca>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:02:31 -0700
Subject: RE: [AE] Conformed Media Cache: Limit size? Safe to delete?
Thread-Topic: [AE] Conformed Media Cache: Limit size? Safe to delete?
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> Ok, so you've got your Disk Cache (configurable in Preferences-> Media
> & Disk Cache). In that preference, I can choose the maximum size of the
> cache files and the location, and whether to enable it or not. Ae will
> then cache 'expensive' frames, but these frames are not persistent:
> when I quit AE, the cache is cleared out.

True, through CS5.5. But the cache is persistent in After Effects CS6. FYI.

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> 1) Can I define a size for the confirmed media cache file somewhere? (I
> think the answer to this is "no")

No. But that's a good feature request.

> 2) Everything leads me to believe that manually deleting all files in
> conformed media cache folder isn't a problem. When Ae opens a file that
> needs to have media conformed, it will simply do it if it doesn't
> exist. Just want to make absolutely sure that removing conformed media
> won't mess anything up (I'm in a highly automated environment).

You're correct. Deleting the cache files for media still in use has the wor=
st-case result of causing the indexing/conforming to happen again for those=
 assets.