Where Are Metadata Cache Files Stored? How Do I Clear Them?

When you use KooCLI to manage and use your cloud service resources, it remotely obtains details about the target cloud services and APIs in the commands. To reduce the remote calling times and accelerate response, KooCLI introduces the cache mechanism to store the information about cloud services and their APIs in local cache files, known as metadata cache files. Before the files expire, the included information is used to verify and assemble parameters in commands.

• Storage directory of metadata cache files
  • Online mode
    • Windows: C:\Users\{Your Windows username}\.hcloud\metaRepo\
    • Linux: /home/{Current username}/.hcloud/metaRepo/
    • macOS: /Users/{Current username}/.hcloud/metaRepo/
  • Offline mode
    • Windows: C:\Users\{Your Windows username}\.hcloud\metaOrigin\
    • Linux: /home/{Current username}/.hcloud/metaOrigin/
    • macOS: /Users/{Current username}/.hcloud/metaOrigin/
• Procedure for clearing metadata cache files
  • Online mode

    To clear metadata cache files, run hcloud meta clear. After they are cleared, data is obtained and written to new cache files during API calling.

  • Offline mode

    Run the hcloud meta clear command to clear the metadata cache files parsed from the downloaded offline metadata package. The package will remain. During API calling, this package will be parsed again and new metadata cache files will be written into it.