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I'm running CiviCRM 3.3.5 on a site with low to moderate activity (less than 3,000 contacts, about 50 contributions per month). I recently noticed that my backups have been increasing every day.

The site has only been live for under a month, yet there more than 20,000 files in the templates_c directory are taking up nearly 200 MB of space.

I have cron jobs for processing civicrm mail (bounce handling and bulk mail), and the regular Drupal cron job. Is there another CiviCRM cron job I should be performing to clear these out? If not, is it safe to delete this directory every once in a while?

Thank you. I guess I'll delete the files to speed up the backups.

I am wondering if others have encountered this problem. Is 20,000 files and 200MB normal for 1 month of usage?
Does this directory ever get automatically cleaned? Extrapolating out, I would have 500,000 files and about 5 GB in a couple of years if I didn't do anything.

I guess I'll add something like the following to my crontab. This should delete everything older than 30 days:

find <drupal root>/sites/default/fies/civicrm/templates_c -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;