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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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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You don't have to clean your ~/.cache every now and then. You have to figure out which program eats so much space there, ensure that it is not misconfigured and file a bugreport.

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So OP's headline should be saying instead: Reminder to CHECK your ~/.cache folder every now and then

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just symlink ~/.cache to /dev/null

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cache exists for a reason, that sounds like itd break programs, a safer method is probably having it be a ramdisk