How do you clear the Vivaldi Cache?

ShellyB

I have looked in settings and the history tab. What am I missing?

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Pesala

@shellyb You can do it from the Tools Menu, Delete Browsing Data, or assign a shortcut to it. Ctrl+Shift+Delete is the default shortcut; I use Ctrl+Q.

The dialogue will remember your last used settings for period, and for which items to clear.

Delete Browsing Data.png

Updated for Vivaldi 4.1

ShellyB

@pesala Thank you so much!

For anyone else who is as lost as I was you can find the Tools Menu under the little "V" in the upper left corner of your screen.

zaibon

@shellyb
Or in a new tab when you click on the history button than there is a brush like button in the upper right corner - in case you use the history page more often

Celeblhach

Or you can press F2 and type "Clear Private Data" and select the right option there.

x-15a2

Or you can use the extension Clear Cache which gives you a nifty icon to click to quickly clear the cache.

OziIan

.... OR ... write a simple DOS batch file (using commands in Command Prompt) to delete the cache folder.
I have a comprehensive BAK.BAT batch file to do daily back-ups, the first part of which deletes all the useless space-consuming files of my choice.

Have a look at the 'DEL' options within the Windows Command Prompt.

This assumes you are comfortable creating batch files, of course.
If not, I'm prepared to help a little.

Hope this helps.

janrif

@zaibon said in How do you clear the Vivaldi Cache?:

Or in a new tab when you click on the history button than there is a brush like button in the upper right corner - in case you use the history page more often

I don't see this option. image pls. TU

hlehyaric

@janrif There's a brush button in the upper right corner (history tab).

greybeard

@shellyb Here are two ways from the Keyboard:

Ctrl + Shft + Del, will bring up a dialog allowing you to select options to delete what you need
Alt + T will bring the Tools dialog, then type "d" to get the same dialog (regardless off the menu system you use)

jsteave

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VivaLaUSA

@pesala It's now under "Tools" > "Delete Browsing Data... Ctrl+Shift+Del".

Catweazle

@vivalausa , addicional I use Site Bleacher extension, it remove automatically cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs, service workers, cache storages, filesystems and webSQLs, except from whitelisted sites. With this I store only the data from sites I visit daily, f.Exmpl. those from this Forom.

DrBoneSaw

@x-15a2 said in How do you clear the Vivaldi Cache?:

Or you can use the extension Clear Cache which gives you a nifty icon to click to quickly clear the cache.

I've been using this for a good while and wouldn't have a browser without it.