How do you clear the offline cache for web apps in Safari?

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Alex Nolasco picture Alex Nolasco · Apr 11, 2011 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

I know in Chrome you can clear offline apps by typing this address

chrome://appcache-internals/

Does safari 5.0+ have something similar?

Please note that CTRL+ALT+E will not remove offline web apps from the cache.

Answer

Earl Zedd picture Earl Zedd · Sep 27, 2011

On OS X the Safari cache manifest database can be found in 

/var/folders/XX/xxxxxx/-Caches-/com.apple.Safari/ApplicationCache.db

where X/x is random characters. (You'll find one set of random characters for each user on your computer; you only need to worry about the path that corresponds to your account.) Delete ApplicationCache.db and restart Safari. (The .db file will regenerate when Safari encounters a site with a cache manifest.)

The easiest way to get at this file is to run the following command in Terminal

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

and then force a restart of Finder. When you're done run 

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
and restart Finder again.

I found the seed of this answer here.

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