How to Clear Your SharePoint Designer 2013 Cache

This quick tutorial will cover how to clear your SPD 2013 Cache, which comes in handy especially when working with SPD 2010 & SPD 2013.  Clearing the cache will remove any of your past connection history as well give you a “clean slate” to work from.  The cache is not even cleared after doing a reinstall, so this really is the only way to clear it.

Steps:

1.    Close SPD if it is open

2.    Open My Computer

a.    Click the address bar

3.    Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache

4.    Delete everything within this location

5.    Click the address bar

6.    Paste %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache

7.    Delete everything in this location

 

This is a quick couple of steps in order to clear your cache and to hopefully resolve SharePoint Designer anomalies which present themselves from time to time.

Cheers!

Dan