How do I clear cache in Safari now?

Hi, if you need to clear Safari caches only, then go Preferences ->‘Advanced’ tab then check ‘Show Develop Menu’ then you would be able to see a new 'Develop' menu at the top, click here and select the ‘Empty Caches’ option.

That's it! If you want to know more ways of how to clear cache files or history in Safari or, please try this great post https://macappgeeks.com/clear-safari-cache-file-on-mac

1. Upper right hand corner. Menu tab will appear.

2. Click the "privacy" tab.

3. Click the button "remove all website data".

4. Click "remove now" in the pop up window that appears.

5. Check it out. https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=45060

You can enable the Develop menu to clear the cache if you don't want to clear your history...

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Advanced tab.

Select: Show Develop menu in menu bar

Now from the menu bar click Develop > Empty Caches

The 'Official' Apple method is to: Close down ALL applications except Finder then, at the top Tool Bar on the left where you'll see 'Go' as here:-

While holding down the Alt key click on the Go option and you'll see this:-

Send the Safari one (I send them all) to the Trash, don't empty the Trash yet. Re-start your computer. Then empty the trash.

For some reason Apple buried the ability to clear Safari's cache in the Develop menu, which you have to enable.

Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop menu in menu bar: check

Develop menu > Empty Caches.

I'm on OS 10.13.1, High Sierra, and Safari 11.0.1.

Testing locally, with 'Disable Local File Restrictions'.

The link provided in the previous post gives nothing new.

Wasting hours trying to clear the cache while testing css/javascript combinations.

There's no 'Disable Cache' option in the developer menu--nor in previous OS, Sierra.

Even if I use the option-Go menu, and delete from the library "com.apple.Safari"--still, I need to quit the browser and re-load twice before the new code is displayed.

Help!

Clearing your Safari browser cache using the "Develop > Empty Caches" selection in the menu does not work. This is a major bug within Safari - Version 6.0.2

To clear your browser cache you must manually remove the Cache.db from your user files.

Follow these steps to clear your browser cache manually:

1. Open "Finder"
2. In the menu at the top of your screen select "Go"
3. While the "Go" menu is dropped down press and hold the "option" key on your keyboard. This will reveal the selection "Library"
4. Select "Library"
5. Navigate into the folder "Caches"
6. Next navigate into the folder "com.apple.Safari"
7. In this folder you will see a file named "Cache.db"
8. Right click the "Cache.db" file and select "Move to Trash"
9. Now restart Safari by right clicking the Safari icon at the bottom of your screen and select "Quit"
10. You have now successfully cleared your browser cache.
11. Open Safari and happy browsing :-)

Note: Clearing your browser cache will not remove any saved password, logins or session data. It will just remove the files and images that were cached while browsing within Safari.

I tested this and confirmed that Safari's cache.db file is neither removed nor emptied when the user uses the "reset Safari" function, nor when they select the "empty caches" function in the Develop menu which is hidden by default. Additionally, I opened Safari's Preferences panel, selected the Privacy tab and clicked on the "Remove All Website Data" button. Again, this had no effect on the cache.db file.

The Safari cache.db file is in SQLite format. If you don't have an appplication that can read SQLite files, you can still open it up in TextEdit and confirm that it in fact contains traces of the URLs you have visited.

I performed the same test with Firefox and Chrome and in both those cases, their respective cache.db files were deleted when I used those browsers' "clean history" functions.

At this point I have no idea what steps are truly necessary to remove all Safari web browsing history. If this file remains even after selecting all those Safari privacy functions, god knows where else Safari is storing browsing data without providing users a way to delete of delete it.

I have the same version.

I was also concerned about breaking something if I deleted the file. So to test, I first copied the file to my desktop (just in case) and then deleted it from the com.apple.Safari folder. Restarted Safari and it simply re-created the file on its own (with previous browsing data gone of course.)

I believe the purpose of cache files is to save recent data locally in order to imporove an application's performance. I sense that it is generally harmless to remove these files manually though I don't have ny reference to back that up.

The main thing you lose is the same as when using their privacy functions: you might lose passswords and preferences for your differrent websites. But of course, you should already know this.

Yes, you are right. I just empty cache and the size of the file is the same.

Maybe it has some hidden procedure that empty the cache in other way, but you still need to use the option.

Now my file has 13,9 MB and I believe will go again to a smaller size, when Safari understands it needs.

If not why I had only 1,7 MB. Yesterday I used Safari a lot

It's quite possible (even likely) that Safari manages the cache as needed, and that this may reduce the size of the file sometimes.

Are you concerned about the cache size specifically?

I'm concerned about privacy and the ability to clear my browsing data when desired. Firefox doesn't seem to have a problem with this. Neither does Chrome.

Vritika --

Quit Safari.

Click out on your desktop somewhere to get Finder menu on the top menu bar. Then look over to the right, and select the "Go" menu while holding down the "Option"button. You will then see an option for "Library" right under your home folder on that list.

That is your hidden Users Library. Open that Library, go down to Caches. Open that, and then look for apple.com.Safari. Take that file to the trash.

Restart Safari.

this has been such a help you have no idea!!!

I have been unable to get sounds to play on soundcloud since getting a new MBP, there are NO solutions to this i could find online, soundclouds help is generic (doesnt specify browser) so doesnt help, but following these instructions worked perfectly!!! Thanks so much!!

Carolyn Samit wrote:

No problem 🙂 Appreciate the points!

@ Carolyn - NO -- do not delete a post. You might think you are only asking for yourself - but this is now May 18th (7 months later) and I came looking for the same answers (just upgraded hardware) and came from 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

Lots of stuff between the 2 systems are similar and Mac-like - but there are enough differences that I'm having to trouble shoot above and beyond my normal "new system" tweaks.

So you never know when and for whom a Question will help someone else out.

Thank you for posing the question and thanks to all for pointing out the change.

As usual the UI Devs at Apple (among other software companies) like to mess with us.

...Thanks very much for this .One question How do I check if the folder is really empty .

Because it reappears when I restart Safari .Is that just an empty folder waiting to be filled again ?

Thanks .Niall