How to find/clear your Nuget caches

Nuget maintains a set of caches on your local machine, or your build server.

Sometimes you need to find and clear a particular package, or simple clear the caches.

The most used locations can be found at:


%LocalAppData%\NuGet\Cache %UserProfile%\.nuget\packages

The easiest way to find all of them however is to use nuget itself:

The following command lists all the cache locations:


nuget locals all -list

You will see four different cache locations.

If you want to clear all the caches the following command will do that:


nuget locals all -clear

The options for nuget locals: