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Nelien van Vliet
Nelien van Vliet
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May 8, 2015
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Can I safely delete Media Cache Files

  • May 8, 2015
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Hi,

I am using Mac Book Pro and a extern HD (time capsule). Since I organized my photo's on de extern HD with Lightroom 6, there is a huge file in Library/ Cache/ Adobe/ Lightroom/ Video  it is called Media Cache file on my Mac Book Pro HD, it is about 220 GB. Can I safely delete those files??

Thanks

Nelien

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Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack
Community Expert
May 9, 2015

That's huge seeing as the normal setting in Preferences for video cache is 3GB. There's a Purge Cache button in the Video Cache Settings section of File Handling in Preferences. Make sure Limit video cache size is on too.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
Nelien van Vliet
Nelien van VlietAuthor
New Participant
May 9, 2015

Hi thanks for answering. I already did hit that button 'purge cache', but nothing happened. I 'am thinking to empty the Media cache folder manually, unless  that is a stupid thing todo.

I think it was not clever from me to sync the extern hard drive ' data'  map in Lightroom?   Lightroom looked for all the photo and video's (! yes I have a lot of homevideo's in there) Probably that caused the problem.

Thanks for the answer.

Nelien

Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack
Community Expert
May 9, 2015

HI Nelien,

Generally speaking anything in a cache is there for quick retrieval and can be deleted as it's recreated when needed. As long as you know the original video files are stored safely, you should be able to delete the contents of the folder.

Sean

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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