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Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Alt TextA 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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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You can also setup a cron job to periodically clean oldest files for you.

Example: @weekly find ~/.cache -type f -mtime +7 -delete

This will delete everything older than 7 days inside your cache folder.

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