Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
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A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
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Your Distro should normally do that for you.
Advising for this means people will delete random cache and download stuff always.
Are multiple files in there? If yes you could add a script that only deletes files of certain age.
I'm not aware of any distro that automatically clears a user's .cache in their home directories. Maybe you're thinking of /var/cache?
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