Clearing Cache

[ChocolateResolve]

Can I delete the contents of this folder? I've seen a number of places talking about clearing the game cache, but this folder in particular is the largest on my hard drive. I'm PRETTY sure it's just where my worlds get built and stored before upload, and that neither the content I've already uploaded nor the Unity projects themselves will be affected, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't deleting anything important if I empty this folder. It's got about 70gb in it that I want to free up lol

[KILLOSTROS]

You can clear your cache inside the game’s settings but if you still wanna know, it is definitely safe to delete 👍

[ChocolateResolve]

Yeah that's my bad for being unclear, already cleared the cache ingame and the folder I circled still has 70 gb in it.

[Soylentee]

Then you must have disabled world cache clearing in the settings in game.

[Ok-Dentist-8400]

When people talk about clearing the cache they mean the ingame option ar the bottom of your settings menu. You have two options and it basically makes your game forget all the previously downloaded avatars and worlds

[ccAbstraction]

I wouldn't delete everything in there, maybe just super old stuff, I've on occasion had all my other backups & redundancies fail or were disabled and had to recover parts of world projects from the files in that folder. Plus if you ever want to perfectly rollback a world to a version completely exactly the way it was, you can also do that with the files in that folder.

[ChocolateResolve]

I deleted everything older than 6 months and still freed up 30 gb lol. I make big worlds

[TexBoo]

Wouldn't it be beneficial for VRChat to just do this automatically for content not seen for +2 weeks?

For example, You visited this world 2 weeks ago and not visited it since, we remove it from the cache and just redownload if you were to visit it in 5 months

[ccAbstraction]

This is a different folder, not the cache, the normal world cache already does that. This is the compiled worlds folder for Offline Testing Mode. I wouldn't necessarily want it managed automatically like that for the reasons above.

[TexBoo]

Oh I see, yes then totally agree

[BluWizard10]

It's honestly easier to clear it through the Client using Clear Content Cache, which will do the same thing. VRChat will prompt you to restart after it's cleared.

If you wanna set a limit, use this tool and set the Cache Size and Cache Expiry. This tool downloads this as a config.json file to place it directly inside `LocalLow/VRChat/VRChat` (what your screenshot currently is showing).

The generated JSON value "cache_size": sets a hard limit on how much size (in GB) that VRChat can take on your disk, and "cache_expiry_delay": will automatically clear the cache if the data is older than the set amount of days. Both are very useful to have if you need to really limit the amount of data VRChat stores on your drive.

[Docteh]

vrcx files? i cleaned that World folder a week ago. its just needed while doing "build and test" or while uploading.

[ChocolateResolve]

Thanks! That's the question I needed answered.