[mythtv-users] Is it safe to delete caches?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Aug 11 16:51:56 UTC 2012


On 08/11/2012 12:26 PM, Greg Grotsky wrote:
> I'm in the process of rearranging the hard disk structure in a new 
> system and looking through the old file system I found that my 
> osdcache directory was 520MB!  Apparently this directory has been 
> retired as it doesn't exist in my new .mythtv directory structure. 
> However, I do see a themecache directory that currently holds 534MB. 
> This is probably normal, right?

Yes, that's pretty normal.  It's always safe to delete the caches when 
mythfrontend is shut down, and should be OK to delete them while 
mythfrontend is running if you restart mythfrontend immediately after.

You can delete them with:

rm -rf $HOME/.mythtv/{*cache,Cache-*}

Mike


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