On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 03:22:12AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I specified in Netscape's preferences disk cache of > 1000kBytes. However, whenever I go and "du ~/.netscape/cache", I > invariably get some huge number: > > 3,5M cache > > And this is because I deleted its contents manually several days ago. > > Now, even funnier. When I do "Clear Disk Cache" from the same > Preferences dialog, it only clears a small fraction of the space > used. Here's what I saw after clearing: > > 2,8M cache > > So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone?
I noticed the same thing. It is broken as far as I can see. I added the following line to my crontab: 5 0 * * 0 /bin/rm -rf /home/tgakem/.netscape/cache This completely removes the cache once every week. After I start netscape when the cache dir is gone, it pops up some error window, I click OK or something like that, and continue with a neatly cleaned disk. It's not ideal, but workable for me. I don't belong to the crowd that gets annoyed if they have to restart netscape every week. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)