If you clear your inventory cache does it delete your items?

[Cee Bovarro]

If you clear your inventory cache does it delete your items?

[Griffin Ceawlin]

No. Your inventory will take some time to fully load the next time you log in, though.

[Nalates Urriah]

Your inventory is kept in the SL servers as a list of your stuff. All the stuff in your inventory is in the SL asset servers.

Your cache holds a copy of the list, textures, geometery, animations, and sound files. These are used to save download time. 

Textures are stored in compressed format, so they still take time to decompress each time you needed them. Some think the cache doesn't work because the decompress isn't instant.

In Preferences - Setup you can change the size of the cache. The default is 500mb and the Max is 10gb. Larger is better.

Clearing the cache is a last resort measure. For most of SL's history the first step in any troubleshooting advice was to clear the cache. So, that advice is still handed out from habit. The change over to HTTP protocol for downloading has made cache corruption rare. Only clear your cache when you are sure the problem is cache corruption.