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Nathan Wailes
Nathan Wailes

Reputation: 12252

How can I reduce the size of PyCharm's content.dat.storageData cache?

My content.dat.storageData file for PyCharm is huge (~8gb); is there any way for me to make it smaller? Ideally I'd also like to be able to see what it contains.

I have already tried going to File --> Invalidate Caches/Restart as recommended in the JetBrains article Cleaning out the system caches.

Is it safe to try to just delete the file?

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 3503

Answers (2)

Jonas Campos
Jonas Campos

Reputation: 11

in the options of pycharm there is a option "invalidate caches", thats the safe way

Upvotes: 1

Nathan Wailes
Nathan Wailes

Reputation: 12252

I ended up just deleting the file, and I haven't noticed any ill effects so far.

I believe the cache file had grown a few weeks ago when I placed a folder full of ~100,000 text files in one of my project files, which caused that folder to get indexed by PyCharm. I later marked the folder-full-of-text-files to not be indexed, but the cache file remained large.

Upvotes: 1

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