[GH-ISSUE #558] Pinterest PINCACHE overload #375

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opened 2026-03-03 01:12:02 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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2026-03-03 01:12:02 +03:00

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Originally created by @brendane19 on GitHub (Sep 2, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy/issues/558

Image cache blew up to 27GB. It appears that archiving images is accomplished by using PINCache, which saves into a system cache directory:
.../com.pinterest.PIN DiskCache.PINCacheShared

This had overflowed to 27GB storage. Clear History button from clipy menu would remove the most recent files since the most recent launch, but not the older ones. Unclear if these just get permanently stored at shutdown or power loss, but they piled up quite significantly. Any way to update this caching feature to automatically delete files older than the nth most recent (n to be specified by user preference of max clipboard size or another variable)?

Love this app, but bothered by this problem. Now that I know, I can manually clear this directory, but definitely a nuisance to have to figure out what was eating up my storage space.

Originally created by @brendane19 on GitHub (Sep 2, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy/issues/558 Image cache blew up to 27GB. It appears that archiving images is accomplished by using [ PINCache](https://github.com/pinterest/PINCache), which saves into a system cache directory: .../com.pinterest.PIN DiskCache.PINCacheShared This had overflowed to 27GB storage. Clear History button from clipy menu would remove the most recent files since the most recent launch, but not the older ones. Unclear if these just get permanently stored at shutdown or power loss, but they piled up quite significantly. Any way to update this caching feature to automatically delete files older than the nth most recent (n to be specified by user preference of max clipboard size or another variable)? <img width="622" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-02 at 2 07 29 AM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0263d5f4-be86-42c1-a24c-68d961b0143e"> Love this app, but bothered by this problem. Now that I know, I can manually clear this directory, but definitely a nuisance to have to figure out what was eating up my storage space.