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How to Clean Electron Cache (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Electron folder under /home/cache has reached 1.3GB.

I want to clean it but I don't know how or would be wrong?

Is there a command like yarn cache clean?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's a cache. It's meant to be deleted from time to time, especially if the application is not good at it by itself.

So simply delete the folder. Anything electron will need after that will be re-downloaded when the application is run again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You should delete the contents of the cache folder instead of the folder itself as sadly some apps will break pretty spectacularly if they can't find the folder itself. Otherwise you're entirely correct

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

General trick for unknowns like this, you can rename a folder, open the applications. If they work, it is likely safe to delete that folder. If not, you rename that folder back. A simple way to test removing something non-destructively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

folder.old

then it's all fun and games till you've been fucking with it for 3 hours and you get to folder.old.old.old.old.old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've been there.

[–] turbowafflz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always do folder.save, then folder.oldsave, then folder.oldoldsave. It isn't any better but it is slightly different

[–] bustrpoindextr 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No love for folder.bak?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

.bak gang rise up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nice trick, thanks.