Lisa Hodgen

Q: How do I clear cache in Safari now?

found the answer.

 

Message was edited by: Lisa Hodgen

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 19, 2012 1:55 PM

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Q: How do I clear cache in Safari now?

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  • by dwhitcraft,

    dwhitcraft dwhitcraft Oct 16, 2013 1:53 PM in response to UNSHMD
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    Oct 16, 2013 1:53 PM in response to UNSHMD

    Hi UNSHMD:

    in Safari 6.0.5 - I'm on it now, so I know this works:

     

    go to Safari menu> preferences> Advanced (last icon top right)

    click on "Show Develop Menu in menu bar"

    then click on the new "Develop" menu at the top of your screen and select "empty caches" or "disable catches"

     

    hope that helps

    -Dave

  • by alexanderfrommonrovia,

    alexanderfrommonrovia alexanderfrommonrovia Nov 10, 2013 10:54 PM in response to dwhitcraft
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    Nov 10, 2013 10:54 PM in response to dwhitcraft

    This doesn't actually work.  Safari keeps a cache file even after turning "disable caches" on and emptying the caches.  It makes it impossible to web develop on.  Total fail for apple.

  • by OAFCOK,

    OAFCOK OAFCOK Jan 7, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Lisa Hodgen
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    Jan 7, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Lisa Hodgen

    Is "Empty Caches" the same as "Disaable Caches"?

     

    It doesn't show "Empty" when I click on "Develop" in menu bar. Just shows "Disable".

     

    Can I do any harm or lose information, etc, when I click on this? Can I lose important 'stuff'? (I'm not even sure what a 'cache' is....a guy I work with suggested I should do this once per year!)

     

    Thanks

  • by OAFCOK,

    OAFCOK OAFCOK Jan 7, 2014 10:56 PM in response to OAFCOK
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    Jan 7, 2014 10:56 PM in response to OAFCOK

    I just spent some further time clicking around for the answer to my question...above.

     

    When I clicked on the Safari symbol (top left) one of the options was "Empty Cache"...perhaps that's all there is to it????????

     

    Seems too easy after reading the four pages of what some of you folks have been through? *Scratches head*

     

    Though I am apprehensive to empty in case I screw something up. (Not a techie!) And I don't know which version of Safari I have....Macbook is three years old.

     

    Anyone? I would appreciate the assistance.

  • by Yellowbox,

    Yellowbox Yellowbox Jan 7, 2014 11:21 PM in response to OAFCOK
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    Jan 7, 2014 11:21 PM in response to OAFCOK

    Hi oafcok,

     

    I don't know which version of Safari I have

     

    Menu > Safari > About Safari

     

    My version of Safari is 7.0.1. App Store does not show a Safari update waiting, so this is the latest version (for my Mac).

     

    To clear browsing history etc. Menu > Safari > Reset Safari... then choose what you want to delete. I do this from time to time and nothing bad happens. If I delete everything in Reset, the only thing I have to do afterwards is enter my username on sites such as this, then it remembers me again.

     

    Have a stroll around Menu > Safari > Preferences. For example, I prefer 'Remove history items: After One Day'. If a site is particularly interesting, I save that link in bookmarks or as a text file. Better than having to trawl though a long History.

     

    I am not a techie, so I don't know what is in the cache.

     

    Regards,

    Ian.

     


     


  • by nbar,

    nbar nbar Jan 7, 2014 11:24 PM in response to OAFCOK
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    Jan 7, 2014 11:24 PM in response to OAFCOK

    The shortcut command + option + e empties the Safari cache without having to enable the "Develop" Menu tab.

  • by OAFCOK,

    OAFCOK OAFCOK Jan 8, 2014 5:19 AM in response to Yellowbox
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    Jan 8, 2014 5:19 AM in response to Yellowbox

    Many thanks Ian. My Safari is 5.1.10.

     

    I think I am going to have a go at Disable Cache...and see what happens.

     

    Better make sure I have my usernames and passwords for the sites I visit.

     

    Regards,

    OAFCOK

  • by OAFCOK,

    OAFCOK OAFCOK Jan 8, 2014 5:22 AM in response to nbar
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    Jan 8, 2014 5:22 AM in response to nbar

    nbar: I DID manage to set up the Develop tab before I saw your reply....

     

    I think I will have a go after talking to the guys at work and hopefully nothing weird will happen.

     

    Also see my response to Ian, above.

     

    Thanks,

    OAFCOK

  • by FillMyHistory,

    FillMyHistory FillMyHistory Apr 22, 2014 4:54 AM in response to Lisa Hodgen
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    Apr 22, 2014 4:54 AM in response to Lisa Hodgen

    Hi,

     

    Once you delete your History, make sure you fill it back up again!

     

    Go to www.fillmyhistory.com for a quick, easy and safe way to fill up your browser.

     

    Nothing is more suspicious than an empy Internet History!

     

    Regards,

     

    Fill My History Team

     

    I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

     

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  • by Moof666,

    Moof666 Moof666 Jul 5, 2014 6:09 AM in response to ~Bee
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    Jul 5, 2014 6:09 AM in response to ~Bee

    I'm pretty sure Apple hid it for the same reason they hid the user Library. There isn't much need of clearing cache. PC geeks love to clear "temp" data, because for Windows XP and older, it often made a big performance boost. Mac OS rarely has any faulty cache, and clearing good cache just slows safari. The purpose of cache is to speed re-loading content.

     

    Hmmm... pretty weird. Now this forum has no sub-replies. Last time I logged in here (and for many years before), you got your reply to a specific post to appear under that post. This new organization is MUCH more annoying than loosing the easy cache removal of Safari.

  • by enkhzul,

    enkhzul enkhzul Aug 3, 2014 6:42 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Aug 3, 2014 6:42 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    I cannot see empty cache in develop menu

  • by Kevin Cody,

    Kevin Cody Kevin Cody Oct 21, 2014 8:40 AM in response to Lisa Hodgen
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    Oct 21, 2014 8:40 AM in response to Lisa Hodgen

    Safari 8 caches are where, please?

  • by nugj,

    nugj nugj Nov 2, 2014 5:27 PM in response to Kevin Cody
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    Nov 2, 2014 5:27 PM in response to Kevin Cody

    Oh my God

     

    In the first place I don't understand why the library is suddenly buried. I did not want to update to Yosemite in the first place but was forced to it during the its mess. Frankly think it is well below Apples usually high standards.

     

    Anyway when I finally get all the way down to the library file that i the topic of this discussion the only thing I find that is actually names cache.db is some sort of read me file that I can't get access to anyway.

     

    The file folders that are there are as follows:

    com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing

    Extensions (which appears to be some way for Norton to check sites

    fsCachedData

    Remote Notifications

    Webpage Previews

     

    I am guessing fsCachedData is the file I should actually dump.

     

    Does anybody know?

  • by nugj,

    nugj nugj Nov 4, 2014 1:58 PM in response to nugj
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    Nov 4, 2014 1:58 PM in response to nugj

    I thought I would post this again to see if somebody knew which one of these files I should send to the trash. I think I really need to do this for a multitude of reasons. Did it for Mozilla which does not have anywhere near the cache that I have in Safari and my computer really did get much zippier just with that. Please help. Anyway the files I have In library/cache.db appear to be a little different from what folks have reported. I am sure some of them is the right file folder. Can anyone identify the right one?

     

    In the first place I don't understand why the library is suddenly buried. I did not want to update to Yosemite in the first place but was forced to it during the its mess. Frankly think it is well below Apples usually high standards.

     

    Anyway when I finally get all the way down to the library file that i the topic of this discussion the only thing I find that is actually names cache.db is some sort of read me file that I can't get access to anyway.

     

    The file folders that are there are as follows:

    com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing

    Extensions (which appears to be some way for Norton to check sites

    fsCachedData

    Remote Notifications

    Webpage Previews

     

    I am guessing fsCachedData is the file I should actually dump.

     

    Does anybody know?

  • by eekahil,

    eekahil eekahil Jan 20, 2015 10:15 AM in response to nugj
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    Mac OS X
    Jan 20, 2015 10:15 AM in response to nugj

    Bumping.

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