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376235 2005-07-28 01:46:00 How do I clear it,

let me explain

I enjoy the fact it caches webpage content etc, but I want to be able to clear my history of visited pages every once in a while (for google desktop search)

I clear my internet cache for opera, firefox and IE, but the pages are still searchable in google desktop search

How do i do this

I realise I can turn the caching off, or delete the files one by one, but surely there must be a "Clear Web Content" control somewhere

Thanks 		Morgenmuffel (187)
376236 2005-07-28 03:10:00 Get and download CrapCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/) and make the setting to your needs. It cleans well and thoroughly everywhere you want it to. SurferJoe46 (51)
376237 2005-07-28 03:46:00 Actually thats what i use and it doesn't seem to get rid of the desktop search cache Morgenmuffel (187)
376238 2005-07-28 03:50:00 Wait a minute here! I think I misspoke myself .

That cache you want to remove is the way G-Desktop works!

It has to inventory and find everything you have . . or what's the use of having it if you don't want it to catalog everything? It will take forever to re-catalog what is in your system if you want to use it . . . and that might take too long .

Is this to what you are referring? :illogical 		SurferJoe46 (51)
376239 2005-07-28 04:27:00 Sort of

What I want to do is remove the webcontent side of the google cache, google keeps copies of all pages visited, even if they have been deleted from your browser cache, I have found a soloution
taken from here ( . google . com/group/Google-Desktop-Search/browse_thread/thread/ea0272b125c61a04/943d6e1b4e5d3d2c?q=web+cache&rnum=9#943d6e1b4e5d3d2c" target="_blank">groups-beta . google . com)



- Delete browser cache .
- Under preferences, verify web history search type is checked .
- Under preferences, set number of results per page to 100 . This
allowed me to change the &num parameter within the current GDS search
URL .
- Be sure to save preferences .
- Just for the purpose of deleting a large number of files, I turned
off the "show pictures" option in the browser so that I wouldn't have
to waste time waiting for the thumbnail of the web pages to load . Be
sure to turn this back on afterwards .
- I brought up only web pages by searching for filetype:web within GDS .
Then I updated the URL to bring up 1000 pages at a time by adding
&num=1000 to the end of the current URL . You can use a different
number, but I feared anything significantly larger might cause the
system to lock up .
- Remove as normal (using remove items option) . The removal page will
reflect the number of pages from the search page . Keep in mind that a
1000 pages takes much longer to remove than 10 pages (duh) . After the
deletion the URL will refresh with the next &num search results, so
you'll just need to select remove items again and continue repeating .
- Under preferences, uncheck web history search type .



kind of handy as I had 5000 odd web pages in google cache, and I didn't want to delete the google cache and loose the rest of the index 		Morgenmuffel (187)
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