{"id":166911,"date":"2010-03-01T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=166911"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:54:52","slug":"managing-your-display-caches-in-arcmap-new-at-10","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/mapping\/managing-your-display-caches-in-arcmap-new-at-10","title":{"rendered":"Managing your Display Caches in ArcMap \u2013 New at 10"},"author":3601,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[25311,25591,23591,35011,29191],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36991],"class_list":["post-166911","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-10","tag-arcgis-desktop","tag-arcgis-server","tag-caching","tag-display","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"Caching is a great way to speed up the performance of your day to day usage of ArcMap.  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