Article 5MGQZ /run directory , what is it + multiple questions

/run directory , what is it + multiple questions

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buchinski
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When downloading photos directly from within a Gmail message, I noticed that instead of putting them in my home folder, Debian insisted on putting them time and again in /run/user/documents/1000/some_alphanumerical_name. Afterwards, I paid attention to always changing the download path to /home/Pictures, but if I do not do this, the system saves them in that /run directory. OK so...

1/ what does this run directory do? It only seems to save stuff in /run form within Gmail, not when downloading photos from a website
2/ it is filled with a lot of subdirectories, most of them empty. Can I just delete these files and directories in /run/user/ ?
3/ apparently they are created at boot, but do they ever get cleaned up, e.g. on a reboot?

The system is a Debian 10 buster, the browser I use is Firefox 88

Thanks in advance for any answers!latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=JwJ7Z5f0bpQ:lC2TJXFpB2E:F7zBnMy latest?i=JwJ7Z5f0bpQ:lC2TJXFpB2E:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=JwJ7Z5f0bpQ:lC2TJXFpB2E:gIN9vFwJwJ7Z5f0bpQ
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