Re: huge netscape cache, cant remove it within netscape

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jack Byers wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
Try this:
cd .netscape
cd .cache
rm -rf *
exit

I do it all the time... :-) I haven't crashed ye