I did go hunting rabbits.
CONCLUSION: I'm a good housekeeper. My personal files and pdf collections had about 20 instances of duplicates which I hand-deleted.
I only scanned /home
and not /filesystem
---I refused to mess with the system files.
My bloated/.cache
was even clean.
Where things got weird were/.config
...
duperemove -r /home/brent/.config
showed 92 mysterious system files(?)/duplicates that were shared between 3 apps: museeks, jitsi,
and a very very bloatedBrave
browser.
EXHIBIT A:
Showing 8 identical extents of length 8192 with id 3181f604
Start Filename
0 "/home/brent/.config/Museeks/GPUCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/FreeTube/GPUCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/FreeTube/DawnCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/ShaderCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/GraphiteDawnCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/GPUCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/DawnCache/data_3"
0 "/home/brent/.config/Jitsi Meet/DawnCache/data_3"
what is this identical "data3" file with no extension that three apps, and only three apps need? curious.
lots of chunks like this.
EXHIBIT B (Brave spawning the love):
Showing 10 identical extents of length 4096 with id daecf672
Start Filename
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.449/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/mr/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.449/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/en_GB/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.449/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/ml/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.449/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/gu/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.449/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/te/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.492/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/mr/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.492/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/en_GB/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.492/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/ml/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.492/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/gu/messages.json"
0 "/home/brent/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/afalakplffnnnlkncjhbmahjfjhmlkal/1.0.492/1/scripts/brave_rewards/publisher/reddit/_locales/te/messages.json"
lots of Brave identical stuff spread out in all the folders.
the rest of .cache is just variations of A) same file with same 3 apps and B) Brave multiple duplicates of same file. no other apps or variations noticed--just these 2.
I didn't mess with the/.config
stuff, not sure it's necessary.
any 2nd opinions on my expedition, please share. Thanks!