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!Friendica Admins does anyone uses the experimental avatar cache? It is activated with the setting 'avatar_cache' in the local.config.php. With this, the cached avatars will be stored in the file system, which increases the loading speed and should decrease the needed disc space.

If you already use it and you are already on RC, please follow the following steps to improve the space usage.

1. Deactivate it in the local.config.php
2. Execute bin/console clearavatarcache to clear that folder (this can last longer than a day)
3. Delete the contents of the "avatar" folder (this can last more than a day)
4. Activate the avatar cache again

Background: The folder structure in the avatar cache folder had been suboptimal. By removing it it will be refreshed in a less space consuming way. I gained more than 130 GB on my system.