How To Clear Or Delete WinSCP Cache - How To Clean Up WinSCP Application Data
16How To Clear Or Delete WinSCP Cache - How To Clean Up WinSCP Application Data
In this video, I will show you how you can completely clear or delete all your WinSCP caches off your PC. When you first connected to your server, you were given the choice through a WinSCP warning message, to cache your servers host key that you are trying to connect/login to. If you chose Yes, the host key will be cached and you will therefore have WinSCP cache application data to clear or delete. If you selected No, the host key will not be added to your computer cache and you will be greeted with the same WinSCP warning message when you attempt to reconnect to the same server once again. Clearing or deleting WinSCP's host key caches is not the only application data that can be cleaned up. Two other application data types can also be cleared in a similar way as demonstrated in this video. These two other application data types are "General configuration" and "Random seed file"
WinSCP https://winscp.net/eng/index.php
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Steps To Clear Or Delete WinSCP's Caches:
1. Open up your WinSCP application. If you don't have WinSCP installed on your PC. Watch this video of mine titled "How To Download And Install WinSCP - How To Transfer Files Using SFTP In WinSCP" https://youtu.be/w-TI-e23Yuw
2. On the WinSCP login window, click on the "Tools" button at the bottom left hand corner.
3. You will now see a drop down menu. Click "Clean Up..."
4. Select/checkmark the box next to "Caches" and click "OK" to clean up your WinSCP caches application data
5. Check to see if your servers host key has been successfully cleared from your PC's cache by reconnecting to your server. Input your servers login information such as your servers host name (server IP address"), user name, and password. All of these inputs can be found on your dashboard for your server host provider. If you don't have a server already you can spin one up with DigitalOcean using my referral link to receive $200 in cloud credits to test out DigitalOcean's servers for free for 60 days. Here is my DigitalOcean referral link https://digitalocean.pxf.io/c/1245219/1373759/15890
6. Click "Login"
7. If you have successfully cleaned up WinSCP's caches application data you will now again see WinSCP's warning message which you would have originally seen when you first connected to your server.
You should see the following WinSCP warning message:
[WinSCP Warning - Continue connecting to an unknown server and add its host key to a cache?
The server's host key was not found in the cache. You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you think it is.
"Your server’s Ed25519 key details"
If you trust this host, press Yes. To connect without adding host key to the cache, press No. To abandon the connection press Cancel.]
Congratulations, you have successfully cleared or deleted, WinSCP's caches.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro & Context
0:08 - How To Add Your Servers Host Key To WinSCP's Cache
2:12 - How To Check If Your Servers Host Key Is Cached In WinSCP
2:55 - How To Clear Or Delete WinSCP Cache
5:18 - Closing & Outro
What is WinSCP?
WinSCP is a popular SFTP and FTP client for Microsoft Windows! The WinSCP client allows the user to copy files between local computers and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols.
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