
If you have a look in ~/Library/Caches you will find a bunch of applications have a cache in there, none of them particularly large though dropbox sometimes has a fair sized cache. The caches in /System/Library/Caches are generally small and useful, the ones in /Library/Caches are less system caches and much more readily cleared. Thank you for your time and hope you guys found this video useful, don’t forget to like and subscribe.It's generally safe, though a little dangerous depending, to do it but often not worth the effort. If you landed on this page then be happy because many people aren’t aware of this deleting caches tasks, so now that you read this you are aware. Just Follow the video tutorial and delete your caches to have a smooth operating program to use for your video edits. But, if you are using the program every now and then, than you may want to delete it every couple days. If you are using the program daily and your on it all the time then you may need to do this daily. And, you want to make sure to do it constantly every couple days or depending how often you use the program. You want to make sure to always delete it so After Effects is running smoothly. It is very important to delete the caches, Why? Because, if you do not delete them then the program will start slowing down often causing glitches or other problems to the video composition. Why You Want to Delete Media and Disk Caches? Hope this steps help you to delete caches in Adobe After Effects. It’s better to do step 2 as we did through the folders by renaming the common folder. But, this won’t delete every unnecessary file through the folders. Temporary Way of Deleting the Media and Disk Caches All the new caches will be saved in Common folder again.

Once After Effects starts and the new Common folder is created you can go ahead and delete the Common Folder that you renamed and this will delete all the caches it has previously done. The Common folder is where it saves the caches and its good to get in a habit to do this maybe every two weeks. rename the common folder to something else like I renamed it to CommonMonkey you can rename it to whatever you want because when you start the After effects it will recreate the Common folder again.right click on Windows sign at left corner of home screen.Normally, I will wait until I have used around 70-100 GB then I will click OK to Clear Disk Cache through: You have a different GB number and you can check it here:Īnd there you can see how many GB yours is.Įarlier mine said 4.1 GB. My number is set to 100 GB so I check every time to see when it reaches near 100 GB then I click OK to Clear Disk Cache. This are the ways you can delete media and disk cache in Adobe After Effects.
