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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

  • bizdelnick
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    6 months ago

    Why should somebody do this every day?

    Why should somebody do this ever?

    As the experience from other users in this thread, it seems not extremely rare to have an overgrown ~/.cache/ folder.

    It is the first thread about overgrown ~/.cache directory I see since I use Linux (~16 years or so). But, as I wrote above, this sometimes (rarely) happens with log files and some other directories. Checking each of them is a waste of time, if not automated, checking just one or few of them makes sense only if you are testing some app and looking for files it creates.