Set how often your trash and temporary files will be cleared from your computer.
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# 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.

# Automatically empty your trash and clear your temporary files after a set period of time:

Open the Activities overview and start typing Privacy.

Click on Privacy to open the panel.

Select Purge Trash & Temporary Files.

Set the Automatically Purge Trash or Automatically Purge Temporary Files switches to ON.

Set how often you would like your Trash and Temporary Files to be purged by changing the Purge After value.

Use the Empty Trash or Purge Temporary Files buttons to perform these actions immediately.

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Use the Purge After: Immediately setting with caution. Setting your trash to be purged immediately will cause any files you delete to skip your trash and be permanently deleted. Files that are deleted are much more difficult to recover than files that are in your trash.

Unless you have a specific need to immediately delete files from your trash, it is probably safer to set a longer Purge After value.