[ Thanks to
Jacob Barkdull for this link. ]
“If you remember ‘Microsoft Windows XP’ you may be aware of
Windows’ little problem of keeping too many ‘temporary’ files for
too long (I don’t know if this is still a problem with Vista and
7.) These files can be Internet files (web cache, history,
downloaded files, and Internet Explorer’s apparent backups of these
files) or ‘.bak’ files, etc. All of these files over a year or two
of usage can make up a total size anywhere between 3 to 15
gigabytes. That’s a lot of hard drive space used simply for files
that are supposed to be temporary.“And you may have guessed it by now, but yes, WINE has the same
problem. If you use WINE regularly, view the properties of the
directory ‘~/.wine’ that is ‘/home//.wine’, you’ll probably be
surprised at the directory’s size (1.3 gigabytes here, and I never
use WINE.)”