My relationship with DP is hanging by a thread. He looked into my internet cache and found...

[policywonk]

... 16 GB of cached MN pages.

He had to take my hard disk into his work (he's an IT geek) and delete them all. Took him 6 hours.

He has been sniggering at me all day.

Not helped by my throwing a hissy fit at the weekend and insisting that we had to get a new computer as mine was unacceptably slow. It seems to be working a bit better now

chose empty cache form the safari menu

i want to empty my cache, but i cant even find the tools option on the menu bar, what menu bar??? arrrccdchhhh

this is very grave

have just printed off to do this on my mac and totally combobulated

I seem to have missed a bit

what's the first step on a mac?

Lucy ellen - what broswer IE7? IE6? ANOther?

i have discovered

on a mac on the safari listing

click on the safari icon at the top (not the bottom) which gives you the listings

and there is a listing "Empty Cache", it's very easy

but I'm now interested and want to view cache

beetroot missed yours .. do you know how to view it?

Dear god....do NOT, I repeat NOT hoover the inside of your PC (unless you really really want to go and buy a new one) There are a few small, but vitally important chips in there that don't like it very much........ You can get special delicate especially-for-PC mini hoover things to do it that won't bugger the works to hell if you really need to do it.

stuffit, if you're anything like me your cache will be very dull reading; MN threads ad infinitum. DP had a look in the hope of finding something incriminating but quickly lost the will to live.

There she is, stirring up anxiety and discontent..educating the women.

Next they'll be demanding that the PC World sales staff speak directly to them and not just to DP.

Where will it all end?

btw you have to shut down and restart to fully clear the cache, and speed things up following the clearing of space.

For Mac running Firefox. You can set the preferences to clear the cache (and your private data, aka history)every time you shut down or quit Firefox, by going to:

Firefox: Preferences: Privacy:
Tick 'Always clear my private data when I close Firefox"
Then click on Settings button to the right of tick box. Choose, by ticking the boxes, the things you would like to clear each time you quit Firefox eg Browsing history.

wonk i may have very racy stuff on my compupilator
very racy stuff indeed

i looked at something shocking rude today on here and my husband would boggle

Cached pages don't make your pc run slow. It shouldn't take 6 hours to deleate 16gb either.

excuse typos, tired and off to bed shortly.

Well Jodie, I would punch DP in the head for rank incompetence, but in this case the 16GB was pretty much all of my hard disk space and I kept getting messages that I was running out of space on the C drive, so I think it might have been the explanation.

Lol that really made me laugh

so let me get this straight

clearing cache
is that the same as
deleting browsing history?

after each session i do:
tools - delete browsing history - a box comes up with temporary internet files, cookies, history, form data, passwords, you can delete some or all of these - i just click on delete all

is this the same as clearing cache?
is there anywhere else i would need to clear?