I need guidance on what i can delete from Application Data Cache on C:\ PLEASE :) ...

(apologies if this is in the wrong area of the forum..)
I'm trying to clear SecondLife cache in Application Data on C:\ but read that you must be careful what you delete. I have alot of files (I use SL alot!) some seem more disposable than others. GUIDANCE NEEDED please!

In Cache Folder when you open it I have:
----- a 'Textures' Folder (contains a file icon called texture.entries and lots and lots of numbered and lettered folders containing numbered File icons averaging about 9.76KB)
----- and 333 Files icons: most of these are labelled 'objects' with extension .slc ranging in size from 800KB-1.93MB for example....
But there area also some different ones
CACHED_MUTE File,
GZ File (extension .inv.gz),
14192... (data.db2...) which is 100MB,
14192... (index. ...)
CACHE File (name.cache)
CACHE File (texture.cache) which is 79.9MB
ENTRIES File (texture.entries) which is 3.19MB

My virus scan it takes approx 5+mins searching through these files so I'd really like some help with what I can or can't delete without causing SL problems.

THANKS

You can delete pretty much everything in the cache folder, at will. SL will rebuild it when you log in. Will just take longer for things to rez.

What anti-virus are you using? Most allow you to set an exclude for folders you don't want scanned. It would be a good idea to do that if possible.

You can delete the entire Cache folder. You don't need to be careful about what you delete in it. I think you would most likely want to delete the whole thing completely or leave it alone completely.

From within SL you can do Preferences Network Clear Cache and that will delete the entire contents of the cache the next time you exit SL.

You can delete the Second Life cache folder on a standard Windows installation of SL by doing Start Run and entering

del C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\SecondLife\cache

and then press enter.

You can delete everything in the Cache folder - heck, you can delete the entire Secondlife folder under Application Data if you want - next start of SL will recreate it.

ahhhhhhhhh ace CHEERS lovely ladies !!
i didn't realise it was the same as do a preference clear cache.
I haven't been on SL for a month, since last time I was online there a trojan downloader got into my computer while i was playing and so decided to remove all SL files and start fresh just incase there was bad stuff in there. but then noticed all these files still eating up tons of my virus scan time so got paranoid about it.
(also out of interest, i logged on last week at a friends house and my avatar had invisible legs, attachments were still visible, but all the colours and textures of my avatar were in a wierd crucifix shape stretching up from her boots, with a wierd waxy dripping effect!! haha, no not funny) so i'm abit worried something haneous happened while/since i got hit by that trojan.
hopefully it will be ok when i eventually get back inworld.
(i use AVG Grisoft.. and am completely computer health illiterate but figuring stuff out slowly)
REALLLLY APPRECIATE THE HELP THANKS xx

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In that thread a resident says,"Depends on which viewer you're using (Help / About Second Life)...

If it's 1.19.1 then Edit / Preferences, under Graphics... check Custom.

If "Hardware Skinning" is checked, uncheck it and see if that doesn't fix it.

(Other than that, try Advanced Options and uncheck "Enable OpenGL VBO""