Bleach Bit Safe Settings

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I usually use BleachBit before backing up my data drive or imaging my system partition. It can cut down a several 100 MBs to a couple GBs from cached files.

Settings I use:

  • Ran as current user:
    • Bash - clear history
    • Firefox - everything (it's not my main web browser)
    • Google Chrome - just cache
    • LibreOffice - everything
    • System - cache, custom, recent documents list, rubbish bin
    • Thumbnails
    • VLC media player
  • Ran as root:
    • APT - autoclean, autoremove, clean
      • Could do "package lists" too, it just requires sudo apt update the next time you'd like to install stuff.
  • System - cache, localisations, rotated logs, rubbish bin (/root/)
    • Localisations - make sure you set this in the settings! Since I'm :gb:, I only have "en" and "en-GB" checked.

For custom, I have it pointing to a few areas, notably Steam and Spotify:

  • /path/to/steam/appcache/httpcache/
  • /path/to/steam/config/htmlcache
  • /path/to/spotify/Browser/GPUCache
  • /path/to/spotify/Browser/Cache

Right now, there's 1.14 GB and 65.8 MB worth of harmless yet unnecessary files. :package: :clear: All modern operating systems accumulate "cache" intended to speed up the computer... it seems to grow quicker if I've been online a fair bit.

I never used BleachBit to remove kernels, I use this command instead and haven't had a problem:

It helped once identify that I was in fact still booting a 4.4 kernel when my system was "updating" to 4.10...

If ever in doubt, I'd recommend keeping backups/snapshots of your system.

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