RE: huge netscape cache, cant remove it within netscape

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 29-Sep-2000 Jack Byers spoke something to the effect:
> I seem to have built up to a huge netscape cache
> [byers byers .netscape]$ cd cache
> [byers byers cache]$ du -s
> 733740  .
> that looks like 3/4 of a 1gig to me
> 
> when i gointo edit preferences advanced cache
> and then try to
> clear disk cache
> and
> clear memory cache
> 
> it seems to have zero effect,
> du -s  on .netscape/cache still just as large
> 
> Is there something else i should be doing within netscape to
> try to fix this?  this is netscape 4.08, rhat5.2
> 
> alternatively is it safe just togo into each .netscape/cache
> dir and rm all of the files ?

As a matter of fact:

        rm -R .netscape/cache/*

is faster and won't hurt a thing (done it numerous times). It will just
recreate all of the directories when first run again.

Just make sure the '-i' option (default with RH bash installs) is turned
off or you'll be answering yes an ungodly number of times.

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