Cache folder

The eelbrain-cache folder is created inside of the root folder to hold intermediate computations as well as test result files.

Managing the cache

• Since the cache folder contains interdependent files, the contents of the cache folder should not be modified manually.

• The cache folder can be deleted as a whole, since all its contents can be recreated by the experiment class.

• It is safe to temporarily move or rename the cache folder, as long as the internal contents are not modified.

Different versions

Sometimes when Eelbrain updates, the structure of the cache folder changes. The newer version of Eelbrain automatically updates older cache folders, but the new new cache folder is not always backwards compatible. If an older Eelbrain version is used with an incompatible newer cache folder, experiment initialization will raise an exception without modifying the existing cache folder.