Title: Deleting Autoptimize Cache
Last modified: August 15, 2017

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# Deleting Autoptimize Cache

 *  Resolved [awrymag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awrymag/)
 * (@awrymag)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-autoptimize-cache/)
 * Just wondering if I can safely delete the Autoptimize cache when the cache size
   creeps up towards 500MB? What are the ramifications of deleting the cache?
 * It’s taken a few months to reach this size. Is that normal or does it indicate
   that something is wrong?
 * Thanks, J
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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-autoptimize-cache/#post-9410214)
 * hey [@awrymag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awrymag/);
    the only thing
   you have to take into account when purging AO’s cache is that you have to make
   sure any page cache (plugin, hoster, 3rd party such as cloudflare, …) also has
   to be deleted to avoid having cached pages that still refer to autoptimized files
   that were deleted.
 * regarding 500MB in a couple of months; this could be normal (each theme/ plugins
   update can result in CSS/ JS changes and thus new AO’ed files), but it could 
   also be an indication of a small problem. have a look at the number of files 
   in `wp-content/cache/autoptimize/js` vs `wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css`; if
   most files are in the css-folder, then consider unticking the “also aggregate
   inline CSS”-option.
 * hope this helps,
    frank

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