Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
::: spoiler Alt Text 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
So the apps are broken. Cache is meant to be deleted at any time
not necessarily during runtime
But a restart of an app should fix it.
For some reason devs can't wrap their head around cache being temporary.
You shouldn't have done that Dave.
Cannot this be caused by deleting the folder and not just everything inside?
It's likely. mkdir fails to create a subdirectory such as ~/.cache/mozilla/ if ~/.cache/ doesn't exist, unless
-pis 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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