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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

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    I’ve never seen any of my ~/.cache directories get more than a few GB either and I never bother to clean them.
    I am curious what OP was doing that used that much space though. That’s certainly not typical.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      It was AUR packages from yay. I’m a CS major into gaming and emulation so there are a decent amount of programming build tools from the aur that I had, it looks like most of it is coming from storing all of the binaries from AUR packages, as intelliJ ultimate takes up 50 GiB, proton-ge-custom takes up 31 GiB, and Yuzu emulator takes up 16 GiB.

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      11 months ago

      I get the same all the time. OP reminded me to check today and Jetbrains toolbox had cached a lot of downloads that took up 42 GB in total. yarn folder with 2.3 GB. bazel folder with 15 GB (apparently used for building Anki),7 GB paru clones.

      All in all it added up to 82 GB.