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When I use disk usage analyzer and scan my home folder, the .cache
folder in my home directory always shows up with a decent bit of things in it.
Would it be okay for me to delete the contents of this folder or would it damage something?
Accepted Answer
To answer the question, IMO you can delete all of .cache
with no long term detrimental effects.
If your .cache
is growing large, it might be better to look at the contents and determine what application is making it large and re-configure a bad acting application (rather than simply deleting .cache
when it grows too large).
Another directory that can take up a lot of space (and/or save an embarrassing bit of evidence) is the .thumbs
directory. Many files in .thumbs
seem to be duplicates.
To clean (just take care with the -rf
flag and other directories
rm -rf ~/.thumbs/*
When you are new to Ubuntu/Linux it is hard to know what you can and can not delete in your home directory. For the most part you can delete most anything in your home directory, programs or applications that require .cache
(or other dot files such as .local
) will re-create them.
Most of the time, at worst, you will lose custom configurations, but no real harm to the system.
I would not advise you start a habit of deleting things you do not understand in your home directory, back it up or use a test account. If in doubt, the safe thing would be to make a back up or move the file.
mv .cache .cache_backup
You can then restore from backup if needed.
Definitely do NOT start deleting things you do not understand outside of your home directory.
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