The File Cache / Subst Drives tab allows you to specify the following:

 

•set where cached information is stored and when it gets cleared

•mappings between drive names and source code locations

•when local filters are reset

 

The default settings are shown below:

 

 

 

Caching file locations

 

Memory Validator keeps a cache of known locations for files for which it needed to search, improving the speed at which files can be found.

 

•Cache Directory type directly or Browse to find a directory for Memory Validator to cache its information

 

 

By default, the cache is only flushed when the executable changes between sessions

 

•Flush cache at each new session tick to flush the cache every session

 

This slightly slows down relaunch of the same executable, as the cache needs rebuilding.

 

•Flush cache when executable changes untick to prevent the cache being flushed at all  

 

 

When not automatically flushing, you can manually flush the cache if necessary

 

•Flush Cache flush the cache now

 

This is only possible when no sessions are in the session manager.

 

 

Substitute drives

 

Some software development schemes have multiple rolling builds of their software, often enabled by using substituted disk drive naming schemes.

 

When you download the build to your development machine for development and testing, debugging information may reference disk drives that don't exist on your machine, for example, drive X: while your machine only has C:, D:, and E: drives.

 

These options let you remap the substitution so that the Memory Validator looks in the correct place for the source code.

 

•Add adds a row to the Subst Drives table enter the name of a disk drive in the Drive column click in the Path column enter the path that is to be used to substitute for the drive name

 

For example, you might enter X:\ for the drive and e:\version2_1\release for the path.

 

You can double click to edit drives and paths in the table, or remove items:

 

•Remove removes selected substitutions from the list

 

Alternatively, press to delete selected items, and + to select all items in the list first.

 

 

Reset All - Resets all global settings, not just those on the current page.

 

 

Reset - Resets the settings on the current page.