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Reminder to clear your Liftoff cache (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/liftoff@lemmy.world
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It's that time again Lemmings.

Don't forget to clear your Liftoff cache. Liftoff currently doesn not have a auto clear cache feature.

For those who don't know how, Android instructions are below

  1. Long hold the Liftoff icon and select App Info
  2. Select Storage and Cache
  3. Press Clear Cache

Feel free to share your cache size and not compare our addictions.

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[-] Draugnoss@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I think I'm currently winning

[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

only at 576 MB. Was a few GB last time iirc.

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reminder!

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Never cleaned my cache.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 1 year ago

You're winning.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Nothing. These guys may be outliers. I bet most lurkers here have sub 500MB caches.

[-] AwwTopsy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

8.77 GB, oh my!

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

6gb, thank you!

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, when I see the amount of data cleared by others, I wonder what they're reading. 325MB here. Thanks for the tip.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 1 year ago

That's how I felt last time this was posted. Probably meme heavy or NSFW communities.

[-] Null@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

2.97gb

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for this, 2.97gb

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How come this needs to be done manually? Glad the app works so well, but without knowing anything about programming apps, is making the cache expire after a period of time tricky?

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this info. I was at 6.29GB.

[-] yads@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up. Have never cleared it. It was 3.5GB

[-] free@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

❤️ ty

[-] supersockpuppet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

24.9GB here. That explains why I was getting storage errors from the play store.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Which is strange since cached data is technically temporary data. The OS should have fred some of that memory to make room for whatever operation you were trying to accomplish on the Play Store.

[-] supersockpuppet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was because I didn't install it from the store so it didn't show up on the play store storage list. I use obtainuium to install it and had to go into the Android system storage settings, and pick 'show all apps', to see what was going on.

[-] Octavian@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty technologically illiterate. Do most apps have an auto cache clear feature? Will this eventually be added to liftoff? What happens if I don't clear the cache, does it just slow things down?

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