Brave consuming my disc space every day

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Hello,

I’ve been using the lastest version of Brave for nearly 2 months now. A week ago I found you I had 300 MB of space left which I had no idea about losing my space until I was notified.

As I haven’t installed anything besides Brave for months I knew it must have been it. I googled some topics and found out people were having the same issues back in 2020 which was fixed in 1.22.1.

Is anyone else having these issue? Any tips?

I tried uninstalling but I was unable to get the space back (I would say it has taken up to 15-20 GB so far). Also I can’t locate the files that are taking the space.

Thank you for your help!

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It would help to know which operating system and which Brave version you are using.

Do you clean your history regularly?
Do you download big files frequently?

If you are using a version for nearly 2 months, it is not the latest one, as you can see below

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I’m using 1.44.105.

Do you clean your history regularly? - No. And when I did, it didn’t do much.
Do you download big files frequently? - No, I don’t, I rarely download anything.

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But what is your operating system?

Try to run a cleaner. CCleaner (windows and android) is a good one.

If you are using Windows, it may be due to Windows updates.
Some tips for Windows 10: https://www.windowscentral.com/best-ways-to-free-hard-drive-space-windows-10

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Hi

Check the following to save space:

  1. Go to the user data and check the folder called cache

If OS Windows, paste the following in explorer: %LocalAppData%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default

  • The size of Of USer Data should be normally below 1 GB

cache
cache1105×419 35.6 KB

  1. To clean cache on exit, open brave://settings/clearBrowserData and check as in image below

on exit
on exit1055×826 84.1 KB

You may also check the following as Windows takes space:

  1. Open Windows Settings,go to Storage , Temporarry and remove Junk files regularly as in image below:

temp
temp1087×877 88 KB

  1. Disable Hibenate by entering powercfg.exe /hibernate off in command prompt as administrator.

  2. Disable Windows Reserved Storage by entering DISM /Online /Set-ReservedStorageState /State:Disabled in command prompt as administrator.

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