Can I manually delete my local cache without losing my projects?

[hieiswordflame]

I have a huge project with dozens of components and F360 is running pretty slow and glitchy now. I tried to clear the cache though F360 to try and clean up my workspace, and it restarted, but the local files in the "W.login > F" folder are still there (along with 56 other project file caches, totaling 5.21GB). Can I just delete the contents of that folder manually, or will that destroy all of my F360 projects?

Thanks!

[sutherland-]

Hi @hieiswordflame 

I would suggest trying to follow this post where it explains how to reset Fusion 306 which will remove locally cached design data.

Also, there are couple of ways to make F360 run faster, such as:

1. Reduce Effects
2. Switch to OpenGL Core Profile in Preferences

Please take a look for more extensive solutions here.

[jhackney1972]

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@sutherland- wrote:

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1. Reduce Effects
2. Switch to OpenGL Core Profile in Preferences

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Telling someone to switch to the OpenGL graphics driver if you do not know what their video card is capable of could lead to the user losing visual properties and screens in the Fusion 360 application.

[sutherland-]

@jhackney1972 thank you for your comment.

Definitely, but the information provided by me was taken from the official suggestion of the Autodesk site, which I also referred to in my first reply to this topic, so the person could do more thorough research on how to reduce the slow speeds, not only performing the things that I stated. Thus, I mentioned to "take a look for more extensive solutions here."

Cheers.

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

One another thing to try out especially since this is performance is to update graphics drivers. We recently worked with NVIDIA where they fixed few things on their end that impacted Fusion 360. 

For Fusion users who are running on the Windows systems with NVIDIA cards, we highly recommend to upgrade to the latest driver 517.40.
This can address a performance slowness caused by enabling G-SYNC setting from the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Here are the drivers:
Geforce: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/193235/en-us/
Quadro: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/193171/en-us/

[hieiswordflame]

Okay, but could I just delete the local files manually?

[RajkumarIlanchelian · Accepted solution]

@hieiswordflame If you go into your job status and do not have any pending uploads, then yes you can go ahead and delete the cache. (Just for kicks, please back up that folder just in case. I know it will not be a problem but just saying). 

[hieiswordflame]

Thank you! It worked. I'll keep the backup for a few days, just in case.

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

@hieiswordflame Did that "fix" the performance issue by any chance?