Inside your Dropbox folder is a hidden cache folder that stores deleted files locally on your computer for faster restores. If you use Dropbox a lot, this cache folder can eat up valuable HD space.

Regular computer usage results in stored cache files that can become corrupted and outdated, leading to operational quirks and slower boot times. Clearing this cache and other temporary files can ...

I would like to be able to instruct Windows to never cache particular files or directories. There are many reasons to want this; examples include Lotus Notes (which handles its own caching, removing ...

Every time you view a Web page in your browser, a copy of the page is stored in the browser's cache, a dedicated folder where Web content is saved on your hard disk drive. If you re-open the page, the ...

The FS-Cache Project works with network filesystems like NFS to maintain a local on-disk cache of network files. The project is split into a kernel module (fscache) and a dæmon (cachefilesd), which ...

A file of data on a local hard drive. When downloaded data are temporarily stored on the user's local disk or on a local network disk, it speeds up retrieval the next time the user wants that same ...