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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

  • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      So the apps are broken. Cache is meant to be deleted at any time

      • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        It’s likely. mkdir fails to create a subdirectory such as ~/.cache/mozilla/ if ~/.cache/ doesn’t exist, unless -p is explicitly passed to mkdir

        Of course, not everything is a shell script, but I imagine the directory creation functions in many languages work similarly