Large amounts of "temporary system files"

citizin

Hey everyone,
since my phone storage is almost filled up, I had a look at the storage tab within the settings. By far the largest category was a category was "temporary system files" with 36 GB. What exactly are these files? I am unable to find something about them for Graphene OS or for Android in general. I would assume, I would not need all these files, since they are temporary? Maybe some system updates have not deleted the update files and have accumulated this large amount of data that way? Ist it possible to find out, which files these are? Or even better, delete some of these files? Data cached by apps seems to count towards that apps storage budget, so it has to actually be data created by the system.

Thanks!

DeletedUser87

citizin it's hard to say. I know that a lot of my temp files are actually app caches. Might be something like browser, YouTube, music streaming apps, etc. Go through your app list and check for apps that take up more than 1GB of space total, then check if that space is being taken up by caches and clear cache for the affected apps.

Dumdum

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18548-system-temporary-files-not-clearing