Feature request: clear cache on next restart

[NickP]

Hi Simon
I'm always wary about asking for something to be changed immediately after I have found out how to do it, but on this occasion I think it's reasonable since otherwise one has to go delving in dangerous areas with seldom-used tools...

What led me to this is that I did a whole load of retagging, and then started noticing that album art was missing, in both Kinsky and Lumin control points, which suggested the issue was with the data, but revisiting the data showed that it was OK. Searches on "missing album art" revealed nothing, restating MinimServer through MinimWatch made no difference, and restarting my QNap NAS made no difference. It then occurred to me to search on clearing Minim's cache, and it was there that I found both the underlying cause (my tag editor was set not to update file dates) and guidance on how to do it, which involved first finding out that PuTTY's character-based interface was too obscure for me, and then that my license to Smartftp had exprired. I eventually found FileZilla FTP Client on SourceForge, during the use of which I discovered the difference in functionality between connecting on ports 21 & 22, eventually to get to the correct folder, where there was quite a number of cache files, including from previous top-level folder designs, all of which (with a bit of trepidation...) I deleted. I restarted Minim, and have my sanity restored by my music appearing how I expect it to be!

So it occurs to me...: how about a checkbox or similar in MinimWatch that asks "Clear cache on next restart?", defaulting to unchecked, and that is set to unchecked during the restart process? The alternative - deleting files in Unixland using a tool that I might need every other year - is pretty scary and arcane for me, a pretty experienced IT person, and is not something I would undertake again in the absence of documentation to point me to the correct directory...

... just a thought...

NickP