How to clear your Dropbox cache in Windows

How to clear your Dropbox cache in Windows 

When you delete sensitive files from your Dropbox account, you think you’ve deleted them permanently. However, the files remain in a hidden cache folder on your hard drive for emergency purposes that is cleared automatically every three days.

If you need the space, you can manually clear the cache by deleting these files. And that’s what you will find in this article the location of the cache folders in Windows and Linux.

 The Steps :

To access the Dropbox cache folder in Windows > Press Windows key + X > Select “Run”. 

Or Press Windows key + R

Type the following “%HOMEPATH%\Dropbox\.dropbox.cache” > click “OK”

Select all the files and folders in the “dropbox.cache” folder and press Delete. The files are moved into the “Recycle Bin” so you will need to empty the “Recycle Bin” to permanently delete them.

Or you can also press “Shift + Delete” to permanently delete them and immediately, without the need to empty the “Recycle Bin”.

If you see the following “File in Use” dialog box when trying to delete files from the “.dropbox.cache” folder telling you that the “thumbs.db” file can’t be deleted because it’s in use. 

So press Skip and now I will show you how to delete this file and how to prevent it from being created again.

 Press “Windows key + R” to open the “Run” dialog box again > Type “cleanmgr.exe” > click “OK”.

The “Disk Cleanup” dialog box displays and the disk space you can free up is calculated.

Then the Disk Cleanup for (C:) will appear so in the list of “Files to delete” you have to check all the boxes you want and the most important one the “Thumbnails” needs to be selected. Finally click “OK”.

And finally when the dialog Box comes up asking you whether you’re sure to 

permanently delete the files press “Delete Files”.

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