Cleanup IntelliSense files?

I'm using Visual C++ Express for a couple of small projects. Project directories are synchronized with central backup storage after each edit session, I cleanup the build, synchronize, done.

Problem: Even for a small single source file, IntelliSense files are easily 10 MB in size (and thus 100 times bigger than the disk usage of all other files in the project). Synchronizing this over a possibly very slow uplink is completely out of the question, so after each edit I have to close the project, delete the IntelliSense file and synchronize - which is quite annoying. BTW, deleting the file seems to have almost no effect, it's simply recreated on the next project load.

Is there a way of having the IntelliSense files stored in Temp storage or cleaned with "Clean Build" Shutting down IntelliSense completely, which was proposed somewhere else in this forum, did not seem like a good idea, I was losing too many features.

Frank



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Cleanup IntelliSense files?

  • Vinny Davi

    Ok, I'll do that. Thanks for the quick answer.

    Frank


  • Gaurav Srivastava

    No: this is not possible - if you want Intellisense then the IDE requires its store (otherwise Intellisense becomes really slow). What I would investigate is whether there is a way to have the synchronization ignore specific files - like the Intellisense store.

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