My Windows /User Data/ folder is 4 Gb - can it be trimmed?

[groovyclam]

I’m on Windows 10 ( fully patched ) and Brave 1.56.14 and want to back up my c:/users/username/appdata/local/bravesoftware/brave-browser folder to the cloud.

The problem is this folder is 4 Gigabytes !

Can I clear down some of this data somehow before the backup ?

And/or can some folders be ignored ( such as caches ) ?

The worst offenders are two files which are both 1 Gig each →

C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1\File System\005\p\00\00000005

and

C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1\File System\005\p\00\00000006

What are they used for ?

[groovyclam]

@groovyclam

\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1\File System\

Aha, did a search and found the answer - something to do with the way Mega downloads files.

The answer is in this post:

Brave using 85GB of storage?

I was searching for big folders in my computer in order to make some space and i found that brave it using almost 86GB of storage. The biggest files are located in AppData/Local/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/User Data/Default/File System. Does anybody know what can i do about it? [image]

[groovyclam]

To fix, goto to this url in Brave:

brave://settings/cookies/detail?site=mega.nz

and delete the data from that settings page.