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Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I did this and now my games have no icons in lutris, some of my gnome settings got reset and my proton email bridge stopped working

[–] [email protected] 116 points 11 months ago

Time to write some bug reports. ~/.cache is supposed to be disposable.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the apps are broken. Cache is meant to be deleted at any time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

not necessarily during runtime

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But a restart of an app should fix it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

For some reason devs can't wrap their head around cache being temporary.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

You shouldn't have done that Dave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cannot this be caused by deleting the folder and not just everything inside?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It's likely. mkdir fails to create a subdirectory such as ~/.cache/mozilla/ if ~/.cache/ doesn't exist, unless -p is explicitly passed to mkdir

Of course, not everything is a shell script, but I imagine the directory creation functions in many languages work similarly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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