Cache files are not being removed in current pub release

[js2702]

🐛 Bug Report

The recent bug fix in the commit #469 does actually fix a serious bug which has been in the library for two years where the cache files are neved cleaned up because the file.exists() doesn't point to the correct file. The fix has been merged but the release in pub.dev is missing.

There are several issues about this behaviour that have been reported for quite some time.

#377, #452, #446

@mvanbeusekom Sorry for the ping but I believe this is a serious fix missing.

[escamoteur]

Could you please push a new release? Our users reported cache sized of 30GB in some cases

[suli1]

Any update ?

[mikefaust-jm]

For the time being pin the version in your pubspec.yaml to the current git commit:

  flutter_cache_manager:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/Baseflow/flutter_cache_manager.git
      path: flutter_cache_manager
      ref: "54904e4"

[gokturkDev]

This is a super important issue please take a look at it @mvanbeusekom

[gokturkDev]

Is this library abandoned @mvanbeusekom? Please mark it as archive-only or consider transferring the ownership as its dependant on so many people

[ChiaraMC]

For the time being pin the version in your pubspec.yaml to the current git commit:

flutter_cache_manager: git: url: https://github.com/Baseflow/flutter_cache_manager.git path: flutter_cache_manager ref: "54904e4"

This is still not working for me by the way, the files are not deleted after stalePeriod has passed. I'm testing by setting it to a minute, not sure if there's some kind of lower limit on it

[kirstenkoa]

Also interested in seeing this issue resolved. Can a new version be published with the fix?

Pointing to the specific commit doesn't seem to play nicely with cached_network_image

Thanks!

[HeftyCoder]

This library is downloaded by a lot of developers each day/month. At the very least, this should be fixed. It's almost 1 year since this has been pushed, but a new version hasn't been released and we're left with applications which take continuously growing space.