You may be having lakhs of files on a folder which is taking chunk out of you from your server.
Its hard to list all the files even on a GUI file manger on KDE or on GNOME.
Without worries, this can done with a simple command.
find /home/username/foldername -mtime +10 -exec rm {} ;
with the above command, we can delete the files older then 10 days on the location /home/username/foldername change the path that points your local OS files or folder location