Is there a file manager out there that doesn't leave any trace of my activity 👻 within the hard drive (like thumbnails, caché, temp files, leftover files, etc.)?

Ahhh, no filemanager installed … :laughing:

… mc says there is no:

… but you should try on your own. In an VM for good. :grinning:

Maybe check directly?

ls -la ~/.local/share/Trash

And what about gio ?

I will try what was suggested above and see if I can uninstall the other 2 file managers I have.