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How big is your ~/.kde directory?

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mine is 192M

Mine is 192M
I guess majority of that wasted land is taken by email's.
Some maybe also by konqy, and kdevelop.

gj@thinkpaddie:~$ du -s -h .kde
192M .kde

gj@thinkpaddie:~/.kde/share$ du -s -h *
231K applnk
175M apps
61K cache
1.6M config
4.5K fonts
16M icons
512 locale
45K mimelnk
2.5K services
512 servicetypes

and lenghty apps/
gj@thinkpaddie:~/.kde/share/apps$ du -s -h *
6.0K RecentDocuments
512 ScanImages
46K akregator
512 drkonqi
61K juk
512 kab
18K kabc
512 kaddressbook
1.0K kalarmd
5.5K kate
512 katepart
518K kbugbuster
105K kconf_update
1.5K kcookiejar
7.4M kdeprint
9.5K kdesktop
4.5K kdevabbrev
512 kdevappwizard
512 kdevastyle
512 kdevautoproject
1.5K kdevclassview
512 kdevcloser
42M kdevcppsupport
512 kdevctags
512 kdevctags2
512 kdevdebugger
512 kdevdiff
512 kdevdistpart
165K kdevdoctreeview
63K kdevdocumentation
512 kdevdoxygen
2.0K kdevelop
6.5K kdevfilecreate
512 kdevfilelist
512 kdevfileselector
512 kdevfilter
512 kdevfullscreen
512 kdevgrepview
512 kdevoutputviews
512 kdevpartexplorer
512 kdevquickopen
512 kdevregexptest
512 kdevreplace
512 kdevsnippet
512 kdevtipofday
512 kdevtools
512 kdevvalgrind
512 kfile
2.0K kfm
1.0K kfmexec
9.5K khtml
3.5K kicker
3.0K kitchensync
1.0K kivio
117M kmail
1.0K knode
4.5K knotes
512 koffice
100K konqsidebartng
170K konqueror
2.5K konsole
8.0K kooldock
7.4M kopete
1.5K kopeterichtexteditpart
3.0K korganizer
1.5K ksim
512 kssl
164K kstyle
512 ksysguard
512 ktexteditor_docwordcompletion
512 ktexteditor_insertfile
512 ktexteditor_isearch
189K kthememanager
1.0K ktnef
19K kwallet
2.0K noatun
3.0K nsplugins

clearly reveals that kmail is sucking most of that space Eye-wink

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GJ

alexander neundorf's picture

My .kde is over 500 MB, with

My .kde is over 500 MB, with 450 MB coming from k3b.

Alex

icefox's picture

k3b

Is it cache? Is it in k3b's app directory or the cache dir?

KDE User's picture

KDevelop's class store

If you use KDevelop's class store and have parsed Qt and KDE headers, that's an easy 50 megs right there (plus however big the c++ standard library might be too). For those of you who said your .kde is bigger than 10megs, is that because of KDevelop?

Just curious as some of those dirs do seem kind of big.

spookylukey's picture

thumbnails

My ~/.kde/share/thumbnails dir is 24Mb on it's own. Is there any way to control this? I searched through the Control Center to no avail.

icefox's picture

Hmmm I would think it would b

Hmmm I would think it would be in Configure File Manager (in kcontrol) but I guess not.

spookylukey's picture

Found it

The thumbnails dir is generated and filled by Gwenview. Maybe that's a gwenview bug - it should go in ~/.kde/cache-username/gwenview instead? I'll contact the author.

spookylukey's picture

Spoke too soon

This is fixed:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75628

icefox's picture

Finding the large files

If you go into your .kde directory and run:
du -cks * |sort -rn |head -11

This will give you a list of the largest directories

Then to drill down some more running the following, with a quick scan you should be able to see what directories are very large (multi-MB).
du -h ~/.kde

superstoned's picture

?

mine is 32 mb... quite big?!?!?

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