How can I reduce the size of PyCharm's content.dat.storageData cache?
Question:
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?
Answers:
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.
in the options of pycharm there is a option "invalidate caches", thats the safe way
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?
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.
in the options of pycharm there is a option "invalidate caches", thats the safe way