How do you clear your Visual Studio Code cache on a Mac/Linux Machine?

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How do I flush the cache for my Visual Studio Code on my Mac El Capitan OS?

Does this answer your question? [Clear file content cache in Visual Studio Code](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45216264/clear-file-content-cache-in-visual-studio-code) — Da2da2, May 12 '20 at 19:04
Yes. I believe Prancer's answer below includes the same solution found in that link plus more. Thank you for the link @Da2da2 — digiwand, Jun 09 '20 at 20:41

score 60 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '19 at 05:19

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rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/Cache/*
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/CachedData/*

answered Sep 02 '19 at 05:19

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That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! +1 – yanckst Jun 17 '20 at 19:27

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '17 at 13:09

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I believe this is what you are asking... how to clear your file history cache (pulled from this git issue). It is very simple!

To clear your entire history ->

To clear history of specific files -> ">Remove From History"

If you are looking to clear your user or workspace settings, they are just files that can be cleared inside VSCode or manually deleted from your file system. This is documented in the VSCode docs.

edited Oct 26 '17 at 13:09

Gianfranco P.

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answered Mar 01 '17 at 15:41

Prancer

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This solution is not only for macOS but also helped me out on Manjaro Linux. I gutess it works on Windows as well. Just wanted to make sure, People don't get scared by "macOS" and go on searching ;) – ecth Jan 09 '19 at 12:14
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I. Love. You. This fixed my issue 100%. – pgarciacamou Nov 29 '21 at 22:47

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '21 at 10:09

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In my case, vscode always opened several projects at launch. To fix this bug I had to clear "workspace memory" (the local storage folder)

On mac OS

rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Code/Local Storage

Local Storage location

Windows: C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Code\Local Storage
Linux: /home/<userid>/.config/Code/Local Storage
macOS: /Users/<userid>/Library/Application Support/Code/Local Storage

answered Dec 12 '21 at 10:09

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Thank you for sharing these file paths for other OS! – digiwand Dec 13 '21 at 16:26
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My VS code was endlessly looping and crashing due to a very large txt file trying to open. This helped me a ton to stop it from crashing. Thanks! – griff4594 Jun 15 '22 at 17:52

How do you clear your Visual Studio Code cache on a Mac/Linux Machine?

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Local Storage location