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SpaceRay SpaceRay Posts: 12298 Filters: 35	I have just found on my hard drive LOTS of files that puts "Filter Forge Bitmap Cache" and all are different with numbers and different sizes. In all this time I have not found and seen this files, and now I wonder: What is the Filter Forge Bitmap Cache? How is used the Filter Forge Bitmap Cache? Can you delete safely the Filter Forge Bitmap Cache files? I have taken a screenshot of a small amount of the files I have found to show them here NOTE: I have made a backup of this post in case something bad happens again
	Posted: November 20, 2012 11:11 pm	Details E-Mail
Vladimir Golovin Administrator Posts: 3446 Filters: 55	These are temporary files of Filter Forge's virtual memory system. It uses a custom swap system instead of the OS swap file. You can safely delete them, just make sure that FF isn't running at the moment.
	Posted: November 21, 2012 2:39 pm	Details E-Mail
SpaceRay SpaceRay Posts: 12298 Filters: 35	Thanks Vladimir, this is what I have thought that it was just a temporary cache files, like the ones from other softwares, but wanted to confirm it. Now I can safely delete them
	Posted: November 22, 2012 5:05 am	Details E-Mail

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