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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

  • Jinn@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    They do have small annoying issues. This is not one of them. This is something that would completely baffle a non-tech literate person. They’d just observe their computer becoming slow or not having space and say “well, Linux must have broken my computer.”

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      11 months ago

      FYI, Windows doesn’t have any feature either to automatically clear all of it’s temp folders (%TMP%, C:\Windows\Temp, C:\Windows\Panther), plus several other folders where orphaned files are often leftover, such as C:\Windows\Installer, C:\Windows\CSC, and various folders and cache files in your AppData\Local etc, to name a few off the top of my head.

      I used to be a Windows sysadmin for a long time, and let me tell you, HDDs becoming completely full due to cache/temp files is very much a problem in Windows.

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        11 months ago

        Guess what I found in /home/{user}/.wine/drive_c/users/{user}/Temp, 10GB of log files. Although 9GB was from one time when I used Cheat Engine and I don’t know what really happened tbh besides it causing a OOM crash.

        It created a 9GB sized file called ADDRESSES.TMP, I never considered checking for temp files in .wine before. And I guess I should be checking all the prefixes created by Steam games as well…

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        11 months ago

        This has not been the case since at least w10, it has a tool to automatically clean several temp files and recycle bin.

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          11 months ago

          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.

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      11 months ago

      Oh yeah, you never hear such complaints about Windows or MacOS.

      BTW can you recommend any good tools to cleanup my registry?

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      11 months ago

      I once had a huge 20ish GB file in windows I could not get rid of, move, or delete. It was related to hibernation or something like that… Even though I had hibernation disabled and no amount of googling could get rid of the file.

      This is something that would completely baffle a non-tech literate person. They’d just observe their computer becoming slow or not having space and say “well, my computer just broke itself better throw it in the trash and get a new one”