{"id":19027590,"date":"2026-09-23T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cache-files-not-automatically-removed\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:29:36","slug":"cache-files-not-automatically-removed","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cache-files-not-automatically-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cache Files Not Automatically Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently found 370,000 cache files stored in my <code>\/wp-content\/uploads\/ip2location\/caches<\/code> directory. <br \/>It used up my hosting plan <strong>inode allocation<\/strong> of 400,000, causing storage <strong>quota <\/strong>exceeded errors. <br \/>I was able to manually delete the files by clicking on <strong>Clear Cache<\/strong> in the plugin settings. This fixed my storage quota problem. <br \/>Should these cache files be periodically removed by the plugin to stop the cache from unlimited growth?<br \/>Using version 2.45.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19027590","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-allocation","topic-tag-cache","topic-tag-quota"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19027590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19027590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}