Looking for advice regarding the Windows user folder size when using vision clients.
We have an installation where vision is installed on a RDP server and several users login to use an instance of vision. Our IT department had noticed that C drive was filling up and noticed the largest consumer was that Ignition keeps a cache for vision data for every user. When vision was installed for the all users option was selected. Does anyone have suggestions if there is way this data could be consolidated, or automatically purged at some frequency?
Vision will redownload anything that's deleted (from the cache folder) if it still needs it, as long as you delete while not running. But for most users, this will only help after a major Ignition upgrade.
I've seen nothing but misery from clients that go this route. Vision is itself a good candidate for running on a physical thin client (even the Linux ones), and going through RDP breaks many of the advantages Vision offers for robustness in redundant environments, reliable use of momentary buttons for control stations, and reliable client device identification. You should strongly consider abandoning the RDP server.
Thank you Kevin and Phil. I agree the RDP server is not ideal for a couple different reasons, but it works well for our remote management solution. (ThinManager)
I really like the idea of the redirect file. Thank you for the link to the documentation and pointing me to what I was looking for.
