How To Clear Microsoft Teams Cache?

Wanting to know how to how to clear Microsoft Teams cache. You’re in the right place.

I’m going to share the simple steps on how to clear Microsoft Teams cache and they’re listed below.

a. From within ‘Application Cache’, go to Cache and delete any of the files in the Cache location.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\application cache\cache

b. From within ‘Blob_storage’, delete any files that are located in here if any.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\blob_storage

c. From within ‘Cache’, delete all files.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\Cache

d. From within ‘databases’, delete all files.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\databases

e. From within ‘GPUCache’, delete all files.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\GPUcache

f. From within ‘IndexedDB’, delete the .db file.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\IndexedDB

g. From within ‘Local Storage’, delete all files.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\Local Storage

h. Lastly, from within ‘tmp’, delete any file.

* %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\tmp

MS Teams app badly needs some better cache invalidation / cleaning. Alternatively, a built-in button to let the user clear the cache on demand (I know it’s possible to clean the cache manually but this isn’t very user friendly). There’s a UserVoice for the inconvenience of manually have to clear the cache. Go vote it up!

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