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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] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your Distro should normally do that for you.

Advising for this means people will delete random cache and download stuff always.

Are multiple files in there? If yes you could add a script that only deletes files of certain age.

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

I'm not aware of any distro that automatically clears a user's .cache in their home directories. Maybe you're thinking of /var/cache?