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I used 0.15 for a while now.
I noticed the caching folders getting very big +/- 1gb while my gallery is +/- 600 mb.

Is this the kind of size that I should take into account or can this be resolved?

(for now it isn't really an issue but when my gallery will grow more this could become an issue)

thanks

This is mainly related to resized images, and yes, you can expect the cache to be fairly large because of this. However, 1GB does sound like a lot compared to your main site content at 600MB. Essentially, I do not see a problem with this ... It does not slow down anything, and most professional hosts offer 100GB for $3 ... many hosts offer "unlimited" storage now ...

If you rename/move a lot of folders- or files in your content, you will get a lot of stale (unused) files in your image cache. This is because the cached image is based on a request path, which changes whenever you change a folder name that is in the path of the image. Unlike pages/templates, X3 cannot clean up image-cache, because they are based on url-requests. Once in a while, you can delete all files inside in the _cache/images/requests/ and _cache/images/rendered/ folders ... That will require the cache to be recreated (requires a lot of processing), but it means you have deleted all unused files. This is not really necessary, but if you know that you have renamed a lot of folders and/or moved folders around when creating the website, then you have a lot of unused resized images in the cache.

In your website.com/?diagnostics, are you sure open_basedir is disabled? If open_basedir restriction is enabled, it would prevent X3 from being able to clean up the cache folders.