How to clean the download trash of ubuntu

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yuan

Bit poster
Hello,
I accidentally click the cancel button when I was downloading a 22G file via firefox, and it have already finished 20G at that moment.
As I look at the properties of computer , it shows 8.1G used and 53.9G free which means the temp file have been deleted by ubuntu.
But the size of pvm file did't decrease, It remains 30G.
And when I run the compress in hardware menu, it said "the size of vm will be reduced from 0.0GB to 0.0GB"...
The free up disk space option didn't work either.
How can I clean this up?
 
yuan said:
How can I clean this up?
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Hi yuan, follow the steps below:
1. Open 'Terminal' window.
2. Type the following command to remove the partial packages:
sudo apt-get autoclean
3. Type the following command to remove any unnecessary packages:
sudo apt-get autoremove
Now check the pvm size.
 
Arun@Parallels said:
Hi yuan, follow the steps below:
1. Open 'Terminal' window.
2. Type the following command to remove the partial packages:
sudo apt-get autoclean
3. Type the following command to remove any unnecessary packages:
sudo apt-get autoremove
Now check the pvm size.
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Thanks for your answer , but it didn't work.
This trash was created by Firefox download temp file, not the ubuntu packages.
 
PaulChris@Parallels said:
Hi Yuan, you may clear Firefox download temp files as suggested in this article.
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Er..I know how to clean the cache , and I have tried.
The problem is , as I post in #1 , the total space of ubuntu was only 8.1G since the temp file have already been deleted, but the size of pvm was 30G, didn't decrease.
 
yuan said:
Er..I know how to clean the cache , and I have tried.
The problem is , as I post in #1 , the total space of ubuntu was only 8.1G since the temp file have already been deleted, but the size of pvm was 30G, didn't decrease.
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Please check whether any snapshots available in a virtual machine, if any please remove snapshots and check the size of the .pvm file.
 
Hi Yuan, go to your virtual machine's Configuration > General . You will find the reclaimable hard disk space under the Reclaim button.
Click Reclaim then click Yes to confirm your action. Let us know if it helps.
 
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