Clipchamp Eating Up Space? Here's How to Free Up Storage

What's Clipchamp

Clipchamp is a user-friendly online video editor offered by Microsoft with powerful features that doesn't require software downloads.  It packs a punch for video editing, letting you:

• Trim & crop videos
• Add animated text
• Record voiceovers & subtitles
• Apply transitions & effects
• Use green screens
• Enhance audio
• Access stock media

Low disk space culprit: Clipchamp's data usage

Warning: Mind Your Hard Drive Space

 Clipchamp can gobble up storage space on your computer for a couple of reasons:

• Cache: Clipchamp caches previews, project files, and other temporary data to speed things up when you're editing. This cache can grow large, especially if you've imported a lot of media files.
• IndexedDB: Clipchamp uses a browser technology called IndexedDB to store project data. In some cases, this data can become bloated or corrupted, leading to unnecessary storage use.

Unlike the cache, messing with IndexedDB can potentially lead to losing project data, so it's a last resort.

Find Clipchamp, click the three dots (…) next to it, and select “Advanced options”.

Click “Reset” (this clears cache and preferences without losing projects)

How to Reclaim Storage from Clipchamp

If Clipchamp is taking up too much storage space on your computer, here are some steps you can take to address the issue:

1. Clear ClipChamp Cache:
1. Open Windows Settings (press [Windows Key] + I).
2. Go to Apps > Installed apps.
3. Find Clipchamp, click the three dots (…) next to it, and select “Advanced options”.
4. Click “Reset” (this clears cache and preferences without losing projects).
2. Advanced Approach (Data Loss Possible):
1. Close Clipchamp.
2. Search for %appdata%\Local\Packages\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_* (replace * with random characters).  For example, it should be in the following folder:
• C:\Users\yourUserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt\LocalState\EBWebView\Default\IndexedDB
3. Inside LocalState\EBWebView\Default\IndexedDB, you’ll find folders with project data. Delete them carefully.
4. Note: Only proceed if you’re comfortable and have backups of your projects.  Instead of messing with technical data (IndexedDB), you can also free up space by deleting old projects within Clipchamp.

Instead of messing with technical data (IndexedDB), you can free up space by deleting old projects within Clipchamp

Deleting app data resulted in a mere 8.0 KB of disk usage