Not my thing - so probably won't be a lot of help.
But, since the first posting is nearly a month old - can at least say it's the most helpful reply so far.
Most of the contents of the .alice folder are in the webGalleryCache directory, which isn't needed unless you are using the web gallery. If you delete this folder, the size of .alice drops to the 15-20K range, which is
slightly under your size limit.
This will fail the first time (if it indeed ever works with a 25K limit) the web gallery is accessed, unfortunately. Then the .alice directory jumps immediately to >500K and grows from there as more galley items are accessed. (Before I deleted the webGalleryCache, the size of my .alice directory on this machine was >7M.)
Note: This is an old problem. At least in one other case, no solution was found, see
http://www.alice.org/community/showt...ghlight=.alice .