Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
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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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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
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116 0 ReplySo the apps are broken. Cache is meant to be deleted at any time
52 1 Replynot necessarily during runtime
4 1 ReplyBut a restart of an app should fix it.
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For some reason devs can't wrap their head around cache being temporary.
31 1 ReplyYou shouldn't have done that Dave.
26 1 ReplyCannot this be caused by deleting the folder and not just everything inside?
5 1 ReplyIt's likely. mkdir fails to create a subdirectory such as ~/.cache/mozilla/ if ~/.cache/ doesn't exist, unless
-p
is explicitly passed to mkdirOf course, not everything is a shell script, but I imagine the directory creation functions in many languages work similarly
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