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How large is your "hidden" Arduino folder

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I've been doing a different sort of spring cleaning this weekend.

As my disk drive is almost full, I ran the Linux disk usage analyser tool on my Home folder and revealed, unsurprisingly, that the .arduino15 folder was the main culprit (being the "brains" behind it all). This was due to the staging folder, which was well over 15GB!

It turns out that the contents of this literal "staging" folder is really just a type of cache should you want to reinstall stuff again. It appears there is no automated means of cleaning.

So, if you haven't touched yours what size has yours grown too - it's indicative of how extensive you use it (bragging rights, I suppose :-D).

What other tricks do you use to automate disk usage spring cleaning.

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  • BG to my dismay, the Arduino folder I use is a collection of the same folder over four different machines.

    I suffer from a lack of foundation knowledge to manage the Arduino content. Starting out knowing nothing I did things one way. As I learned I changed my approach. This wash-rinse repeat approach tends to create a content mess.

    My greatest fear is having to do something more than once and having to relearn how it is done. Therefore keep everything and hope hunting through the bread crumbs of the past will trigger memories.

    I constantly look at the content of four folders, Arduino, KiCAD, Inkscape and scribus thinking man wouldn't it be nice to Spring Clean them. I shudder and think maybe someday if I am bed bound:)

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  • BG to my dismay, the Arduino folder I use is a collection of the same folder over four different machines.

    I suffer from a lack of foundation knowledge to manage the Arduino content. Starting out knowing nothing I did things one way. As I learned I changed my approach. This wash-rinse repeat approach tends to create a content mess.

    My greatest fear is having to do something more than once and having to relearn how it is done. Therefore keep everything and hope hunting through the bread crumbs of the past will trigger memories.

    I constantly look at the content of four folders, Arduino, KiCAD, Inkscape and scribus thinking man wouldn't it be nice to Spring Clean them. I shudder and think maybe someday if I am bed bound:)

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