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I downloaded "WinDirStat" in order to clean up some space on my Windows 10 PC. This program orders directories in a tree view based on size.

Immediately I saw my user folder was using almost 30GB. Digging into the following path MyUser/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/ I found the WebCache folder, which on its own contains almost 20GB of files.

Interestingly if I go to this path myself in the file browser, I cannot see the WebCache folder (and I should have hidden items as visible). I can open it (takes some time) in WinDirStat, and it just seems to be full of 512KB .log files.

Can somebody please explain what this folder is used for, why it's hidden, and if it is possible/safe to be cleared out?

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You can find the webcache folder by going into file explorer options, view tab and uncheck "hide protected operating system files" which is different than unchecking the hidden folders option. There you will find webcache files. I'm unclear if you should delete them but from what I've read, they're like many cache files which happen to make things load faster. The path is drive/users/ username/application data/roaming/microsoft/windows/webcache

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