Jim Campbell
jwcampbell@gmail.com
Michael Hill
mdhillca@gmail.com
Shaun McCance
mdhillca@gmail.com
2015
Set how often your trash and temporary files will be cleared
from your computer.
Purge trash & temporary files
Clearing out your trash and temporary files removes
unwanted and unneeded files from your computer, and also frees up more
space on your hard drive. You can manually empty your trash and clear
your temporary files, but you can also set your computer to automatically
do this for you.
Temporary files are files created automatically by applications in the
background. They can increase performance by providing a copy of data that
was downloaded or computed.
Automatically empty your trash and clear temporary files
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Open the Activities overview and
start typing Privacy.
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Click on Privacy to open the panel.
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Select Purge Trash & Temporary Files.
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Switch one or both of the Automatically empty Trash or
Automatically purge Temporary Files switches to on.
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Set how often you would like your Trash and
Temporary Files to be purged by changing the
Purge After value.
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Use the Empty Trash or Purge Temporary Files
buttons to perform these actions immediately.
You can delete files immediately and permanently without using the Trash.
See for information.