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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

  • SuperIce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not really. I’ve never seen .cache get bigger than 10GB, which is about how big the temporary files in Windows get if you never clean them.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      It ended up being yay storing binaries from previous versions of AUR packages, definitely depends on the distro/usage but for arch-based it definitely clears up a lot of storage