Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
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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
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So the apps are broken. Cache is meant to be deleted at any time
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not necessarily during runtime
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But a restart of an app should fix it.
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For some reason devs can't wrap their head around cache being temporary.
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You shouldn't have done that Dave.
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Cannot this be caused by deleting the folder and not just everything inside?
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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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The contents were deleted
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