You can then restore from backup if needed.ĭefinitely do NOT start deleting things you do not understand outside of your home directory. If in doubt, the safe thing would be to make a back up or move the file. I would not advise you start a habit of deleting things you do not understand in your home directory, back it up or use a test account. Most of the time, at worst, you will lose custom configurations, but no real harm to the system. For the most part you can delete most anything in your home directory, programs or applications that require.
When you are new to Ubuntu/Linux it is hard to know what you can and can not delete in your home directory. To clean (just take care with the -rf flag and other directories ) rm -rf ~/.thumbs/* cache when it grows too large).Īnother directory that can take up a lot of space (and/or save an embarrassing bit of evidence) is the. cache is growing large, it might be better to look at the contents and determine what application is making it large and re-configure a bad acting application (rather than simply deleting. cache with no long term detrimental effects. To answer the question, IMO you can delete all of.
