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Storage and Storage Sense

What takes the disk space, one-click cleanup and automatic cleanup

Settings → Storage, like Windows' Storage page.

#Disk

Free and total space of the disk that holds your home folder, as one bar colored by kind of file.

#What takes the space

Apps (Debian packages and Flatpak), Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, Downloads, Desktop, temporary files and cache, the Trash, other files in your folder, and the system. Click a folder's row to open it in Files, Apps to open Settings → Apps.

#Clean up now

Empty the Trash

Deletes everything in the Trash.

Clear temporary files and cache

Empties ~/.cache; apps remake what they need.

Downloads older than 30 days

Review… lists them and moves them to the Trash, so you can still get them back.

#Storage Sense

Cleans up by itself, two minutes after login and then every four hours:

• Empty old items from the Trash;
• Delete old temporary files (yours in /tmp);
• Old means older than: 1 week, 2 weeks, 30 days or 60 days;
• Move unused Downloads to the Trash: never, or after 2 weeks, 30 or 60 days.

#More

Disks and partitions opens GNOME Disks (format, check health, mount). See every folder's size opens Disk Usage Analyzer.