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    [Solved]How to clean the Opera Cache?

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    • wealstarr
      wealstarr last edited by leocg

      Hi,

      So I have one cache folder in C:\Users\Even\AppData\Local

      And another cache folder in C:\Users\Even\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Service Worker\CacheStorage

      The first folder in Local takes about 400 MB of space while the other in Roaming takes about 800 MB of space. Combined with Opera program files this adds unto 1.5GB

      I have a tiny disk of about 25GB and I can't allow Opera to take this much of space especially when 90% of the time, I visit the same sites over and over again.

      I wish to keep the cached images and files intact to be able to load the sites faster.

      So my question is, out of the two folders, which folder should I delete and how do I set the maximum number of Data Opera caches?

      Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @wealstarr last edited by

        @wealstarr Check opera://about for the path to the cache directory.

        I can say that the second is service workers cache and not the general cache.

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        • mardiyah
          mardiyah @wealstarr last edited by

          @wealstarr in setting

          Clear browsing data
          Clear history, cookies, cache, and more
          

          or
          try to have certain cache
          In Opera launcher/Desktop shortcut, locate it by
          <your Opera path> --disk-cache-dir=<Any dir. to be cache (ensure enough permission & size}>

          Tip: best is set Softperfect free RAMDISK alloted to 64-96 MB, have a dir under its main drive and be it the cache dir.

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          • wealstarr
            wealstarr @leocg last edited by

            @leocg

            Thank you for the response. How can I prevent the folders growing so large in size?

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            • wealstarr
              wealstarr @mardiyah last edited by

              @mardiyah I apolgise but it all went right over my head. Could you please elaborate in a manner a newbie can understand?

              Thanks.

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              • mardiyah
                mardiyah @wealstarr last edited by

                @wealstarr in Opera setting try find:

                Clear browsing data
                Clear history, cookies, cache, and more

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @wealstarr last edited by

                  @wealstarr I don't think there is a way.

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                  • wealstarr
                    wealstarr @mardiyah last edited by

                    @mardiyah Thank you for the further explanation. I don't want to clean the cache but shrink the size of the profile folder in Roaming and prevent it from growing so large. Is there any way to do that?

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @wealstarr last edited by

                      @wealstarr Other than stop using browsers? I don't think there is.

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                      • wealstarr
                        wealstarr @leocg last edited by

                        @leocg I remember there use to be an option in Firefox to limit the size of the cache but I'm not gonna leave Opera for this.

                        Thank you for the help. This could be closed now.

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