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I spend a while figuring this out myself, but eventually I found there answer here:
https://f95zone.to/members/azrd79.150306/#profile-post-comment-25193

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Hello Amos and thank you for your answer.

The ~/.config/itch/downloads was not inside the default install location, which is ~/.config/itch/apps and it was not just json files, but several gigabytes of zip files containing complete games and it did not clear when I cleared my downloads list.

You are correct, that /tmp might be on a small partition, but so might the home directory. In my case, system and home is on a small-ish SSD, while data and games go to a large HDD, and my SSD ran out of space, which was why I started investigating this.

The problem becomes particularly bad because itch is installing games to ~/.config by default, which, as the name suggests, is intended for small configuration files and on many systems is being kept in a version control system for safe storage and the ability to roll back to a previous state. I now have many gigabytes of download cache inside my version control system :(

A more suitable location for per-user data files is ~/.local/share/<appname>. To quote the specs:

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

I just did a wipe of the itch config folder and let itch recreate it, then added another install dir and installed a new game and everything worked as it should.
The downloads dir gets created inside the install location and the dir is automatically emptied after installation.

So in conclusion, the ~/.config/itch/downloads seems to be a remnant of a previous version of itch, that just never got cleaned up. Users should not have this issue on fresh installs.
My only remaining issue is the choice of default install location. I can work around that with adding another install location or, as I had already done, by symlinking to my usual games install location, but for new users, this could easily become a cause of confusion or frustration, when an application is installing large binaries to a configuration dir.

Hello and thanks for a great application.

I'm on KDE Neon 5.15 (Ubuntu 18.04 with new KDE Plasma goodness on top) running itch 25.4.0 and I recently noticed that my home folder was getting rather large.

Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the itch.io downloads directory never gets cleaned up, so all games I have previously downloaded have their installers staying around taking up disk space.

I have tried looking for an option to "clean the downloads cache on exit" or something similar, but I cannot find it and I cannot find a way to move the downloads dir either.

IMO, itch has some odd defaults for data directories. The default app installation and downloads dir is inside ~/.config, which is really not designed to hold large amounts of data.

My solution has been to symlink the dir to my mechanical data hdd, but I suggest the following changes:

  1.  Add an option to set the downloads dir in app Preferences.
  2. Move the default downloads dir to be inside /tmp
  3. Empty the downloads dir on app exit (or at least add the option to enable this in Preferences)