Nice to see an update with polipo. The only problem I've had with 2.4 is the seemingly random storing of the ‘profile’ folder all over my drives. I'm hoping that's fixed now?
I'd want to give 2.5b with polipo a go, but at wikisend I get a Forbidden telling me to turn on cookies, and even with cookies enabled it won't work. Is there an option of getting it elsewhere?
What versions of tor, polipo/priv, and opera does the 2.5b bundle include?
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OperaTor writing copies of cache all over my PC
For some reason, OperaTor seems to be writing copies of my profile directory, including the cache, all over my PC. I have enabled caching in my copy. Any ideas what might be causing it to do this? I've had to search for opr00*, which is what preceeds most cache files, in order to find them all and nuke them.
Oh, and then they disappeared. Weird. I was also getting strange “cannot access folder” error messages from my backup software. All of this was preceeded by a bizarre crash of my PC, and another strange new folder on my C drive with uts.exe in it. I assumed it had something to do with a windows update or something, because uts.exe isn't malware…but that's my next thought…
Ideas?
I'm getting delayed write
I'm getting delayed write failures, saying it can't write $Mft, whatever that is. Maybe it's a hardware problem.
write failures are unrelated to Opera Tor
It looks like the delayed write failures were because I was using a truecrypt volume that was set to dismount itself after a brief period of time. I have not had the problem since I disabled that feature in truecrypt.
It appears that it's unrelated to the random writing of the profile directories all over the drives in OperaTor, because I still get profile directories written everywhere even after fixing the truecrypt problem.
I need more details – how do
I need more details – how do you exactly use OperaTor and on what system. Does this sound familiar?
The first part of it did.
The first part of it did. I had cache enabled as well. The ‘profile’ folder containing the cache is placed in the folder I'm downloading to through OperaTor. On XPSP2.
Thanks for uploading 2.5b to another server as well.
Location of the profile folder
I think I don't understand. Where did the
profilefolder go? Were you, by any chance, running OperaTor without first extracting it from the ZIP package?Hmm, The profile folder(in
Hmm,
The profile folder(in ..\OperaTor\Opera) doesn't go anywhere(nothing goes in it either AFAIK), a new ‘profile’ folder is created in the place where I download a file.
Say, I download ‘file.txt’ to E:\temp, a folder called ‘profile’ will appear in E:\temp containing the cache of the download, along with ‘file.txt’(in E:\temp, not E:\temp\profile). Turning off caching makes no difference. – I've read at least two comments of people having a similar problem, one you pointed out.
No, not running it from the zip package.
OK, I get it now. Have you
OK, I get it now. Have you already tried the 2.5b release?
problem narrowed down
Opera Tor only writes random profile and cache directories when downloading or saving files. If I try to save a webpage, it will cache it in <somerandomplace>\profile\cache4\ first, and then save it to my save location. If I don't save files, I don't have this problem. In other words, just browsing will not trigger this problem. It appears that everything else is cached in the normal cache directory, and only files that get saved will end up in a random cache location.
This is a VERY serious problem when using a portable application like this. I use mine from an encrypted truecrypt drive volume, so that's why it's safe for me to have caching enabled. If opera tor is copying downloaded files to my unencrypted drives, then all my cache security is gone.
Not random?
It looks like the location may not be random. As someone else already said, the cache may be getting copied to the same root directory as the files you're saving to. So, I'm running OT 2.5 from an encrypted drive Q:\ and then I save a file to drive C:\temp then I will end up with C:\temp\profile\cache4 being created with a copy of my saved files. Or maybe it's C:\profile\cache4 that gets created – I'm not sure yet.
Help in testing
I can't reproduce this error, though I've modified some settings that I think may be causing this behavior and need your help in testing. Please download the test version of OperaTor.
I'm still getting this issue
I'm still getting this issue in version 3.0, though less frequently it seems. I haven't pinned down the circumstances leading up to it.