Also understanding what things do to a medium level doesn't

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Also understanding what things do to a medium level doesn't

keep you from frying your PC... I once had problems with my storage and for temporary solution I decided to wipe out .cache until I found the cause of the issue because a cache is usually data which is just held ready, but is otherwise available somewhere or somehow else so it shouldn't be a problem, right? Well turns out a lot of important stuff is stored there and when you delete it a lot of malfunctions start to appear. A cheat sheet might've prevented me from doing this by showing me which locations I can wipe without breaking anything serious.

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13.08.2024

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Matthias Hoffmann Автор вопроса

Muflone
No useful should be kept in .cache No data should...

I don't know why that happened, I just not know that the entire OS stopped working after that...

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29 дней назад

Sebastian

Muflone
No useful should be kept in .cache No data should...

There are some programs saving permanent data in .cache, but i can only name one out of the had that has more serious consequences.

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29 дней назад

Sebastian

Matthias Hoffmann
I don't know why that happened, I just not know th...

what distro did you use?

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29 дней назад

Muflone

Matthias Hoffmann
I don't know why that happened, I just not know th...

When you create a new user, the new home has no .cache directory If some os has such serious issues by deleting the .cache folder then it must be a very trash OS, or a user error

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29 дней назад

Raptor Blue Bear

Muflone
When you create a new user, the new home has no .c...

It's going to be something like EndeavourOS

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29 дней назад

Matthias Hoffmann Автор вопроса

Sebastian
what distro did you use?

Debian back then

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Matthias Hoffmann Автор вопроса

Muflone
When you create a new user, the new home has no .c...

Not sure if it maybe was /var/cache, but still I'd expect to not break anything when deleting cache...

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29 дней назад

Muflone

Matthias Hoffmann
Not sure if it maybe was /var/cache, but still I'd...

That could be more reasonable than ~/.cache

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29 дней назад

Muflone · Accepted Answer

Muflone

No useful should be kept in .cache No data should be lost by deleting anything into it If this doesn't happen then there's a bug in the software. This is the reason multiple locations (.config, .local and .cache) were defined by xdg

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