# 6GB of caches for YourHead; another 286 MB for RW 6&7

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [November 16, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141 "2016-11-16T16:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![christopherberg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/christopherberg/32/15511_2.png) [@christopherberg](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/christopherberg)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141/1 "2016-11-16T16:13:52Z")

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Hi, Weavers,

After doing a sweep of my HD to locate extra large files, I discovered a folder in in ~/Library/Caches/com.yourhead.YHStacksKit-32. This currently contains almost 6GB. I’d love to have this space back (laptop, SSD). It seems an excessively large cache. I’ve written YourHead but haven’t heard back. Can I safely delete this?

I also found 221 MB in: ~/Library/Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver6/Data/Library/Caches/Updates and 65 MB in ~/Library/Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver/Data/Library/Caches/Updates. These contain DMGs of every version of plugins (Stacks, PlusKit, Collage, RapidCart, Blocks, etc.) I’ve installed. What’s the point? It seems a waste of good space. Why does RW save these and might I safely delete these?

Christopher

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**Author:** ![dave](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dave/32/147_2.png) [@dave](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141/2 "2016-11-17T13:06:55Z")

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I also show large amounts in the realmacsoftware locations (1.7 GB for v7 and 1.1 for v6).

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**Author:** ![swilliam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/swilliam/32/14799_2.png) [@swilliam](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/swilliam)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141/3 "2016-11-17T14:42:43Z")

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I guess you need to ping @isaiah and @dan to get an answer on this one.

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141/4 "2016-11-17T15:08:39Z")

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You can safely delete these caches, just make sure RapidWeaver is not running when you do it.

FYI: RapidWeaver 7.1.x will automatically clear it’s own cache out so you’ll never have to do this again 🙂

Hope that helps.

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**Author:** ![isaiah](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/isaiah/32/93_2.png) [@isaiah](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/isaiah)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/6gb-of-caches-for-yourhead-another-286-mb-for-rw-6-7/11141/5 "2016-11-17T16:52:27Z")

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We’ve been tracking a bug that causes stacks to “go off the rails” and store many more caches than usual. If you have a particular file that you use where you see this issue I’d really really love to have a peek at that to help us narrow down this elusive one. Thanks