Cache Auto Deleting Even Though Disabled

Hi there, @themassapothecary,

If I got what you’re asking, it sounds like you’re experiencing the preload “cleaning up” after itself to make sure no cached files older than the preload time exist.

If you have preload enabled to run all the time, it forces a cleanup of old files:

if ( $wp_cache_preload_interval > 0 ) {
$cache_max_time = (int)$wp_cache_preload_interval * 60; // fool the GC into expiring really old files
} else {
$cache_max_time = 86400; // fool the GC into expiring really old files
}
if ( $wp_cache_preload_email_me )
wp_mail( get_option( ‘admin_email’ ), sprintf( __( ‘[%s] Cache Preload Completed’, ‘wp-super-cache’ ), home_url() ), __( “Cleaning up old supercache files.”, ‘wp-super-cache’ ) . “\n” . $msg );
if ( $cache_max_time > 0 ) { // GC is NOT disabled
wp_cache_debug( “wp_cron_preload_cache: clean expired cache files older than $cache_max_time seconds.”, 5 );
wp_cache_phase2_clean_expired( $file_prefix, true ); // force cleanup of old files.
}

(Reading the comments in the code above will help.)

Our developers confirm that what you are trying to avoid somehow is, in fact, the expected behaviour of the plugin. Maybe that’s not what you expect, but if it’s preloading all the time, then you’d want to get fresh cache files.

Hope that helps and makes sense! Please feel free to reach out if you have any other questions or need some more help.