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10.4: Speed up Dashboard by clearing out its cache
Authored by: gshenaut on Oct 11, '06 09:56:51AM
It was interesting to use Terminal to cd into the cache directory and use the command strings */*/*.cache | more to examine its contents. Each file seems to be some kind of hash bucket containing a list of http-like records each preceded with a ^L (ascii newpage) character. For example, I frequently use a translation widget, and a bunch of the records in the cache are the results of translations I ran over the past month or two. I wonder why they keep things like old translations around that long in the cache?

Greg Shenaut

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