chrome cache folder

[dontlan]

how can I change the chrome cache folder?

chrome writes the entire cache to my ssd, how do I make it transfer everything to my external hdd?

 

[Bigwaff]

Why do you want to slow Chrome down by having the cache on a slow external HDD?

 

[dontlan]

Why do you want to slow Chrome down by having the cache on a slow external HDD?

it's killing my ssd, because I'm sitting in chrome 24/7

how do I move the cache folder to my slow hard drive?

I have searched everywhere for information about this, but there is no answer anywhere.

 

[bogdanw]

I haven’t tried this, but it should work:
- close Chrome
- move ~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome to your external drive
- right-click on the folder and choose Create alias
- rename the alias to Chrome and move it in ~/Library/Caches/Google/

I use OnyX https://titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html or Pretty Clean https://www.prettyclean.cc (https://github.com/pretty-clean) to delete caches.

 

[Bigwaff]

it's killing my ssd, because I'm sitting in chrome 24/7

Explain how Chrome is “killing” your SSD? The cache is a repository of visited web page assets. I highly doubt Chrome can write enough files to its cache to “kill” a SSD.