1497745 - firefox keeps generating trash folders in cache2 dir

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Kajamin]

Attachment: trash folders.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

Newly installed firefox 62.0.3 on Windows 7 64bit. I cleared browsing data via control+shift+delete on close.


Actual results:

A new trash folder (Trash + random numbers) was generated in cache2 dir on the next startup. Then I tried to clear data and restarted fireofox again, a new trash folder appeared. It works everytime when I do those steps. Also there are some leftovers in either folder entries or doomed even though I cleared all browsing data.


Expected results:

Cache2 folder is supposed to be empty after clearing browsing data.

Comment 1

[Michal Novotny [:michal]]

Clearing data takes some time. The cache folder is first renamed to trash directory which is then deleted on the background. So if you clear browsing data and then immediately quit the browser, the trash will likely stay in the profile directory and it will be removed once FF is started again. Note that we wait 60 second after startup before we start deleting trash folders. Closing as invalid.

Comment 2

[Kajamin]

(In reply to Michal Novotny [:michal] from comment #1)
> Clearing data takes some time. The cache folder is first renamed to trash
> directory which is then deleted on the background. So if you clear browsing
> data and then immediately quit the browser, the trash will likely stay in
> the profile directory and it will be removed once FF is started again. Note
> that we wait 60 second after startup before we start deleting trash folders.
> Closing as invalid.

Thanks for clarifying. Had confirmed that the trash folders would be deleted automatically in a while. Thanks again!