The PC version of wechat takes up a lot of memory, which should be the consensus of many netizens. After checking my computer wechat, a wechat cached file actually takes up 45.2gb of my space! Casually turned over the documents inside, which were videos and pictures lost by the company's group of "fishers" in wechat group chat when they were chatting at work.
The functions of these files are basically useless except taking up your disk space.
In fact, wechat's unrestricted occupation of your disk space has something to do with wechat's privacy policy.
For the purpose of protecting your privacy, these files are saved locally, so the longer you use wechat, the more invalid these files will be.
Some time ago, wechat on the mobile phone also updated a wave, allowing users to delete corresponding files according to chat records and categories.
However, the PC version of wechat has always lacked a useful file cleaning tool. Every time you delete these files, you are always afraid of accidentally deleting any important files.
At this time, there should be curious poor friends to ask: is there a useful gadget to clean up wechat PC files?
There is an open source project called cleanmywechat on GitHub. This gadget can help you clean up the wechat cache data in your computer without deleting your chat records.
Poor friends only need to choose a download address on the project website of cleanmywechat, and they can use this gadget directly.
Cleanmywechat supports all [windows] after upgrading version 2.0( https://microsoft.pvxt.net/x9Vg1 ) The wechat version of the end.
After downloading, unzip the folder. You don't need to install it. Open this raccoon avatar directly, and you can clean up the wechat files on your PC.
After opening, if you haven't modified the saving path of wechat files, you can directly click start and clean the files with cleanmywechat.
But if you open it and it shows that the configuration file does not exist. You need to manually add a path in the settings.
You can open the settings of wechat, then find the file management, and you can see the saving path of wechat files.
Then select the custom path in the settings of cleanmywechat, and then add the file management path found in wechat.
If it cannot be used normally, you can check whether the option of whether to clean up and change the account is checked.
Poor friends can also select the file type you need to delete in the settings, such as deleting only the cached data of pictures and videos, and then enter a file how long ago you need to delete according to your own needs.
Cleanmywechat in version 2.0 also adds the function of multi account management. Poor friends can pull down this menu bar, and then find the micro signal you need to clean up the file and delete it.
After setting, return to the main interface and click start at last. Cleanmywechat can help you clean up the garbage files cached by wechat according to your needs.
It should be noted that the documents cleaned by cleanmywechat will be placed in the recycle bin. After cleaning, the worried poor friends can go to the recycle bin to check whether any important documents have been deleted by mistake.
These are all the functions of cleanmywechat. Generally speaking, it is a very easy-to-use gadget that can be used with hands.
After the clean-up of the personal test, it saved me about 30 GB of space, which is equivalent to deleting a cyberpunk 2077 ~ if necessary, you can download it directly from GitHub's official website:
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