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I feel like I'd have a better chance clearing the cache for the app than the cache for the web app.
by jtbayly 4y ago
I feel like I'd have a better chance clearing the cache for the app than the cache for the web app.
- jrajav 4y agoIt's a few clicks in any browsers dev tools or a few more clicks in the settings, and is the same for every website. With a native app the cache could be in any number of places on your hard drive, you have to depend on a function being in the app to clear it, deleting it manually might have unknown side effects, and it's all nonstandard.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoWebsites can’t write to arbitrary places on your FS and the browser has a central way to delete the data that a website can write. Desktop apps can write anywhere, and what it writes might or might not be a cache, so there’s no way to centrally manage it. Apps like cache-cleaners simply hard-code common cache paths for common apps.