Manage Cached Data

New in version 16.04.1.

Kdenlive 16.04.1 rather quietly introduced a useful new dialog, to be found in the timeline toolbar: manage cached data. This dialog allows you to see how much disk space your projects each eat up. You can then also selectively clean up project-cached data when you don’t need it anymore after finishing a project.

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You’ll reach this new dialog via the timeline toolbar preview render button, then Manage Cached Data.

This dialog then features two tabs: cached data for the current project, as well as an overall view on all projects.

Current Project Tab

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The Current Project tab gives a detail view on your currently loaded project, with a nice pie chart. It shows you at a glance how much space individual elements of your project need for caching; such as: the timeline preview rendering cache, proxy clips, audio and video thumbnails.

Here, you can selectively delete only some cached data by simply clicking on the corresponding trash can buttons.

To remove all cache data for the currently loaded project, clip on the bottom trash can.

Finally, when you click on the link which is left to the bottom trash can, the folder containing the project cache will open in your file manager.

All Projects Tab

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The All Project tab gives a detail view on your currently loaded project, with a nice pie chart. It shows you at a glance how much space individual elements of your project need for caching; such as: the timeline preview rendering cache, proxy clips, audio and video thumbnails.

Here, you can selectively delete only some cached data by simply clicking on the corresponding trash can buttons.

To remove all cache data for the currently loaded project, clip on the bottom trash can.

Finally, when you click on the link which is left to the bottom trash can, the folder containing the project cache will open in your file manager.