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I watched an uploaded movie with Totem. Looks like it saved or cached the movie somewhere because it takes space now from the HDD. I never noticed similar before.

Where does Totem save streamed movies?

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    OP seems concerned about cache and not history.
    – user25656
    Sep 5, 2013 at 1:56

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Try the hidden folder .cache or .local/share/totem in the home directory. Archive Manager does usually place temporary files in beginning with .fr or fr (fr for file-roller probably). File roller also leaves these temporary folders in other places (usually when it is interrupted).

Also, for clearing disk space in general you can use baobab to scan for what files and folders are taking up space, or bleachbit to clear the cache, temporary files etc made by other programs.

This seems to be a common issue, so I would suggest filing a bug against the file-roller package here or 'upstream' here (there is a existing similar bug here - however it may be a issue related to Totem and/or using File Roller with Totem).

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    This is not really an answer. It's written more in the style of a comment.
    – user25656
    Sep 5, 2013 at 1:49
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    It's a half answer, BUT it was close enough to find the problem. Everytime when I replayed the movie Totem saved it automaticaly in to a new file. I thought it's not possible but it is. Totem makes cache also at the /home/user/.cache/ folder. So thanks @wilf.
    – ViBE
    Sep 5, 2013 at 8:40

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