Title: wp-content/cache folder size
Last modified: August 8, 2018

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# wp-content/cache folder size

 *  [emrecoltu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emrecoltu/)
 * (@emrecoltu)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-cache-folder-size/)
 * My cache folder under wp-content has around 40.000 files and purging all caches
   does not really reduce this number much. That many files makes backup process
   really long. What can I do to remedy this? Is it safe to just delete the contents
   of the folder and let the plugin create only necessary files?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * (@vmarko)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-cache-folder-size/#post-10571488)
 * Hello [@emrecoltu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emrecoltu/),
 * That can be normal after some time. It is safe to delete the entire directory,
   as the cache will be generated automatically when you visit the website. You 
   might have problems with _old files, causing such amount of files, or you just
   have a huge website. When there are a lot of _old files, you might want to consider
   to change to a memory-based cache to prevent your host from overflooding.

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 * Last reply from: [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-cache-folder-size/#post-10571488)
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