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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If you're talking about the Storage Sense feature - it sucks. It only clears a handful of well-known locations, but it doesn't touch any of the orphaned content in C:\Windows\Installer, or the CSC or the old Panther folders from upgrades, not to mention several other files and folders in AppData. As I've said before, I've been a Windows sysadmin (until last year infact) managing over 20,000 devices, we've had Storage Sense on, but it's been mostly useless - to the point that I ended up writing own cleanup script and set it to run before we pushed out a new Windows feature update, because otherwise we'd get several devices which failed to update due to the disk being full.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think it's that one. I certainly won't say it's a panacea, but I assume it would have solved the OP's case.