On 3/26/16, Larry S.  wrote:
> G. Ross wrote:
>> David E. Ross wrote:
>>> On 3/23/2016 3:07 PM, Ant wrote:
>>>> Wow.
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed my Windows XP Pro SP3's C:\Documents and
>>>> Settings\Ant\Application
>>>> Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\0348axza3.sm2.10.1andNewer\Cache\ was
>>>> over 8 GB! It was supposed to be only using 350 MB according to
>>>> about:cache and cache settings!
>>>>
>>>> I went in there and noticed many Cache.Trash (directorie/folder)s. Why
>>>> aren't these being automatically removed? Anyways, I manually deleted
>>>> them in cmd.exe with "rmdir /s" command. Wow, that took forever to
>>>> finish!
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance. :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I a;so see this in Windows 7 with SeaMonkey 2.40.  The problem is that
>>> several specialized caches are not in the directory where the user has
>>> requested caches to be stored.  I see no good reason why there are
>>> specialized caches.
>>>
>>> See the bug reports at
>>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804731>
>>>   and
>>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864047>.
>>> Also see the bug report that is supposed to be tracking bug reports
>>> about caches at
>>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559729>.
>>>
>> I looked in my Cache directory and found Cache, and Cache2.  Cache2 had
>> two sub-directories, Doomed (empty) and Entries.  Entries had 5280
>> files.  This took a while to empty.
>>
> I, too, emptied out the Cache2/Entries folder. However, I also have a
> Cache folder (which empties out per entry in Edit>Properties>Cache>Empty
> Cache).
>
> I also have Cache.Trash25143, which only contains sub-folder B, which is
> empty.
>
> Finally, I have Cache.Trash15551. Can I also empty that one out?

For whatever it's worth, I've never noticed a problem after deleting
C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Mozilla or any directory below it.  YMMV of
course, so make a backup first.

Regards,
Lee
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