Today, while using Disk Inventory X tool on my Mac, I discovered my Spotify cache was taking up a staggering 10.5GB of space. As of late, I had also been experiencing significant slowdown in starting Spotify, and the application took at least a minute or two to boot up. I decided to clear the large cache earlier today, and the application’s performance improved dramatically thereafter. I’ve seen other people who have this issue, and so I figured I might write a step-by-step guide for dealing with it.
Mac
1. If you do not have hidden files set to display by default: in Finder, press the Alt/Option key to access the Library folder under the Go menu. If you do have hidden files accessible: in Finder, just go to the Library folder in your user directory.
2. Go the Caches folder and look for the com.spotify.client folder.
3. Delete everything inside the Storage and Browser folders, but not the folders themselves.
4. Open Spotify, go to Preferences under the Spotify menu, and change the cache size from “automatic” to “use at most” 1GB. This should hopefully prevent future application bloat.
Windows
1. Paste C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Spotify\ into the directory bar of Windows Explorer.
2. Delete everything inside the Storage and Browser folders, but not the folders themselves.
3. Open Spotify, go to Preferences under the Spotify menu, and change the cache size from “automatic” to “use at most” 1GB. This should hopefully prevent future application bloat.
Today in plagiarism.
