My main question is about /run/user/1000:

  • Should I avoid touching it?
  • Could I delete it?
  • Is there something wrong with it?

Background: I’m fairly new to Linux and just getting used to it.

I use fsearch to quickly find files (because my filenaming convention helps me to get nearly everything in mere seconds). Yesterday I decided to let it index from root and lower instead of just my home folder.

Then I got a lot of duplicate files. For example in subfolders relating to my mp3 player I even discovered my whole NextCloud ‘drive’ is there again: /run/user/1000/doc/by-app/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry/51b78f5c/N

Searching: Looking for answers I read these, but couldnt make sense of it.

Puzzled:

  • Is this folder some RAM drive so my disk doesnt show anything strange? Because this folder doesnt even show up at the root level.
  • Are these even real? Because the size of it (aprox 370 GB) is even bigger then my disksize (screenshot).

Any tips about course of (in)action appreciated.

  • Joël de BruijnOP
    17•10 months ago

    Thanks! And I will remove it from my search index to restrain from “decluttering”. 👌👍

    • @nottellingEnglish
      26•10 months ago

      Don’t “declutter” manually. Use your package manager.

      • Joël de BruijnOP
        8•10 months ago

        I learned a lot in these comments but in this specific context:

        • a flatpak app uses a base directory (mp3 player).
        • I set it to my NextCloud folder.
        • Now run/usr/1000 is “filled” with all my thousands of pdf from personal archive, several times per file (because multiple flatpaks).

        These don’t need decluttering I learned, but aren’t managed by package managers either.

        • @nottellingEnglish
          11•10 months ago

          Flatpak is itself a file manager.

          That duplicate of your folder in /run is due to filesystem links (or more likely a fuse mount, I’ve never actually looked into how flatpak works). But either way, they aren’t copies of the data.