The KEY to Find & Delete RENDER CACHE in DaVinci Resolve - Pro Tip

Is your disk almost full? Learn how to find and delete the DaVinci Resolve render cache clip files to free up hard drive space in just 3 minutes! We go over the best way to find the cache files - all of them, not just the cache clips specific to your open project file. Also how you can use smart cache to regenerate new preview files. Learn how to change the location you are saving new cache renders to so you understand all the behind-the-scenes workings of Resolves playback helper - those dang cache files!
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00:00 - How to Delete Cache in DaVinci Resolve
01:13 - Regenerate Smart Cache
01:50 - Change Cache Location

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00:00 - How to Delete Cache in DaVinci Resolve
01:13 - Regenerate Smart Cache
01:50 - Change Cache Location

[jrazzarelli]

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[Nukemizer]

Your tips are so helpful. I rely on these tips daily. Thank you for what you do Chadwick.

[louishwu]

Thank you for a straight to the point informative answer! You are a hero.

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[MaikHansen]

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[JimRobinson-colors]

Good tips Chadwick - In the past I have done tons of projects and forgotten to delete the render cache before deleting the project - which meant that there hundreds ( maybe thousands ) of orphan files. So instead of just deleting all the cacheclip folder contents and having to recreate the ones that I still was working on. I found that there is a info.txt file in the top level of all the folders that told me what db, and project name the folder was associated with. So from then on, I would go to the oldest cache folders and open the info.txt in it and if the project was an old project that I no longer have or want to open. I would then just delete that folder. Takes a bit longer but keeps a clean and current drive.
Also, since version 17 I don't see a way of deleting Optimized media in Resolve, so I use the same method to make that decision as well.

[martialartsgreatness]

Great! Great! Great! Needed this bro! Thank you!

[matgreen]

Thanks for the help! Had 420GB being used by Davinchi Resolve. They really need to do something to fix this. Quite annoying.

[benarnoux]

This video came at a great time! Thanks!!

[VAsHachiRoku]

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[solaroweder]

Perfect. All I need to know, to the point. Yes, works the same on Windows File Explorer.

[joemehere]

Wow, that was a fair amount of files! Thanks

[suboptimal]

Thanks Chadwick! Could you at some point go over your pen and pad you use and how you use it? I want one but am not sure which to get. Thanks again!

[tricatfilms]

Thank your for posting this. I followed the PC advice below in the comments, I flagged a CACHE file that said 242GB !!! After I deleted it I gained about 80GB of space. Not sure if the other 160gb were on external drives? I've always used my primary drive for renders so that's a little bizarre.

[swaha]

Thank you Chad. Just what I have been thinking about.

SO just to make sure: I can go to my CacheClip folder and just delete the whole folder with no unwanted consequences - correct?

And then when I open Resolve again it will create a NEW CacheClip folder and create new cache for the videos I am working on. Correct?

It is better - faster to keep the CacheClip folder on your internal hard drive rather than an external hard drive? Correct?

Also there is no benefit or need to only delete Cache from within Resolve itself under the Playback menu - right?

What is the difference in the Playback Menu under Render Cache between "None" "Smart" and "User"?

[MidwestWrestle]

Hi there — dual Windows & Mac guy here. The steps for your Windows subscribers are:
1) Highlight the following text with your mouse and press Control + C to copy it: Design\DaVinci Resolve\CacheClip
2) Press Windows key + S to bring up search
3) Press Control + V to paste
4) Hit enter
5) Delete everything in the folder

[stevemcclelland]

I use the ipad m2, how to delete the cache files in there, and also like others will it really not effect current projects??

[marksatterfield]

How can you do this automatically each time Davinci is opened? Because you are correct, these are huge files that persist even for projects that are no longer being used.

[RobertHarvey]

Hello. Thanks for these videos. I have a MacBook Air 2020 is it possible to run DR on a external HD? Trying to keep the HD as clean as possible. Thanks.