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sant527

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Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 273

.local

In my home directory i have a directory called ".local" . Is it necessary or can I delete it.

SoleSoul

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 319

Re: .local

Hi.
Everything inside you home directory is yours to decide.
I mean, look in the directory, see if there is anything you need there. If there isn't, you can safely delete it and any program which need this directory will recreate it.
Usually .folders in the home directory contains just config files for your user and maybe a recycle bin for transmission for example.

EDIT: typo

Last edited by SoleSoul (2009-11-29 15:30:52)

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: .local

.local/share is commonly used by several applications for local managment tasks. Just to name a few, in my system there are these subdirectories:

bp:~$ ls .local/share/
Trash    applications  data                 gvfs-metadata  openbox     totem  uzbl.old
akonadi  bashrun       desktop-directories  mime           parcellite  uzbl   vinagre

Several are empty however, from earlier test installations. These may be removed anytime. But otherwise better doublecheck before removing anything from this directory.

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-11-29 17:45:31)

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Re: .local

Lots of apps depends on .local being there. You can name it something else tho, take a look at XDG_*

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