nancyfromwoodway
Level 1 (4 points)
Safari

Q: Clear Cache

Unable to open email messages in excite.  Instructed to clear cache in Safari (9.1.1)  How do I do that?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Jun 18, 2016 7:13 AM

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nancyfromwoodway

Q: Clear Cache

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  • by jndupuis1,

    jndupuis1 jndupuis1 Jun 18, 2016 7:24 AM in response to nancyfromwoodway
    Level 2 (470 points)
    Jun 18, 2016 7:24 AM in response to nancyfromwoodway

    Open Safari. click on History and you should be able to clear cache that way. Or click Safari > Reset Safari and that will clear everything including resetting Top Sites.

    After closing all open apps, you may wish to go to the Apple (Top Left) > Force Quit and Force Quit all Apps running in the background that were never exited properly.

     

    Cheers!!

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Jun 18, 2016 7:43 AM in response to nancyfromwoodway
    Level 7 (20,633 points)
    Mac OS X
    Jun 18, 2016 7:43 AM in response to nancyfromwoodway

    If you are running Safari on OS X 10.10 or later, the only way to clear the browser cache is Safari : Preferences : Advanced : √ Show Develop menu in menu bar. Then you can use the keyboard shortcut option+command+E to clear browser cache. This will briefly flash a blue background on the menu bar item Develop as confirmation. It does not stop what is in Safari memory, no more than the full selection in Safari : Clear History… , so the current web page may remain active.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jun 19, 2016 6:03 AM in response to nancyfromwoodway
    Level 9 (70,250 points)
    iTunes
    Jun 19, 2016 6:03 AM in response to nancyfromwoodway

    If clearing the cache doesn't work,  go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash. Quit and reopen Safari.