How to free space in .julia

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I have 28.6 Gb in .julia. What is the best way to free some space?

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Maybe try
import Pkg;Pkg.gc()

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Maybe I am doing something wrong because the result is the same.

import Pkg;Pkg.gc()
      Active manifest files: 50 found
      Active artifact files: 299 found
      Active scratchspaces: 36 found
     Deleted no artifacts, repos, packages or scratchspaces
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Just delete the entire folder and start fresh! Redoing an ] instantiate on a project file or two used to take hours but now is extremely fast.

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If it is just packages deleting is fine, I think, but also temporary notebooks are stored in that folder.
Maybe check what is really using the disk space.

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Please don’t recommend that without any preface! You might have a lot of dev’ed packages you modified in .julia or Pluto also saves notebooks there, so don’t just delete it unless you are 100% sure there isn’t any data you care about in there!

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Try

import Pkg, Dates
Pkg.gc(collect_delay=Dates.Day(0))
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50 active manifests? Maybe you want to clean them up: GitHub - giordano/PkgCleanup.jl: Cleanup unused Julia environments and artifacts

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Hmm, I have 62… never thought about this. Just to make sure I understand - active manifest just means that the manifest has been activated at some point in the past (my manifest_usage.toml file has entries that are as old as my laptop) and any package mentioned in any of these manifests will not get removed by ]gc --all?

On the other hand, deleting entries manually from manifest_usage.toml will allow those packages to be gc’ed, but will not remove the Manifest.toml file itself, meaning I can (and have to) to ]instantiate if I do use one of those old projects again?

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My Julia installation has 7 Gb, but almost 4 Gb are conda (required for SymPy.jl). Maybe it’s something to check as well.

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In my case 4.8 Gb for conda.

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Ah sorry, didn’t know about Pluto. Yes, if you dev into that rather than cloning and locally doing it then those are an issue as well.

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Correct. You may want to “deactivate” environments you don’t use very often, so as to let Pkg.gc clean the packages/artifacts used by them. If you do so, the next time you activate them you’ll have make sure to run ]instantiate, yes. But if you don’t use those environment very often, the next occasion may be in a long time.

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I had no idea that’s how it worked - just removed about 4GB of package installations and artefacts related to those 62 active manifests, thank you!

A related question while we’re at it: what’s a scratchspace?

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https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Scratch.jl

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