The paid version of chocolately will clean cache automically, but there is a work-around for the free version.
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Install choco package
choco install choco-cleaner
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Set the execution policy in Powershell to unrestricted, but only temporarily. Normal setting is RemoteSigned
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
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Run the ps1 script
c:\tools\BCURRAN3\choco-cleaner.ps1
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You should see output simliar to the following:
Choco-Cleaner.ps1 v0.0.8.4 (05/28/2021) - deletes unnecessary residual Chocolatey files to free up disk space Copyleft 2017-2021 Bill Curran ([email protected]) - free for personal and commercial use Choco-Cleaner Summary: ** Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey _processed.txt (WTF?) file... ** Deleting 16 unnecessary Chocolatey .ignore files... ** NO unnecessary Chocolatey .old files to delete. ** Deleting 12 unnecessary Chocolatey cache files (C:\Users\TONESO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey)... ** NO unnecessary Chocolatey cache files (C:\WINDOWS\temp\chocolatey) to delete. ** Deleting 25 unnecessary Nuget cache files... ** Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey config backup file... ** Deleting 1 unnecessary Chocolatey lib-bad package files... ** NO unnecessary Chocolatey lib-bkp package files to delete. ** NO unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded archive files in toolsDir to delete. ** Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded archives and executables in .nupkg files... ** NO unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded Microsoft installers to delete. ** Deleting 2 unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded various read me files... ** NO unnecessary Chocolatey orphaned shim files to delete. Choco-Cleaner finished deleting unnecessary Chocolatey files and reclaimed ~ 616,156 KB! Found Choco-Cleaner.ps1 useful? Buy me a beer at https://www.paypal.me/bcurran3donations Become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/bcurran3
- All done!
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