Why people delete the server cache folder?

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I’m close to the v1 release of fxAdmin and people keep asking me for the automatic deletion of the server’s cache folder before starting it.

I never had cache problems and had to delete it.
Is that really a thing or people just do it because they heard it helps with something because of reasons?

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There used to be a less reliable algorithm for determining files were changed, which would consider certain means of changing files unchanged.

This has been fixed for almost a year now, and even before that fix it never really made any sense to do, since only a very particular order of events with changing files would lead to changes not applying.

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Thank you for the response.

So… I will not add this feature since it’s not necessary and actually quite dangerous if not configured correctly.

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Hi there, in my case when i added a new custom ymap where i had before another ymap makes sense to delete cache files so the old ymap goes away. If i dont delete cache files of the ymaps it would still load the old one if its in cache @tabarra

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This shouldn’t be the case if you stop, restart, or start your server because the cache files should be overwriten… I think anyways I have done a lot of ymaps, and had to replace a ymap in the same stream folder after a server restart the cache was overwritten