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2010-11-18 , 17:41
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Originally Posted by tredlie View Post
indeed, most of the files are in the cache somewhere. I find it hard to believe, that there is no builtin means of flashing them.
gfind <directory where to search> -type f -size +2M -ls | grep -v "cache" | more
is probably better. You may filter other items with "grep -v ..."
and vary the size of course.

I also tried something different:
gfind ~ -type f -exec du {} \; | sort -nr | grep -v "cache" | more
This takes some time.
In my case it mostly showed larger videos. :-)