# Remove temporal files of previous installations

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-temporal-files-of-previous-installations/28031
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** git, installation
**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-temporal-files-of-previous-installations/28031 "2019-08-27T09:02:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![carlomontec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carlomontec/32/2011_2.png) [@carlomontec](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carlomontec)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-temporal-files-of-previous-installations/28031/1 "2019-08-27T09:02:44Z")

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Hi,

I just checked out version 1.2 from GitHub and compiled it, and saw my installation folder is more than 5Gb. I saw that in the folder /deps/scratch there are some folders of libraries of different versions, which look outdated.

Is it possible to clean temporal files from previous versions or similar procedure?

Thank you.

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### Author: ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-temporal-files-of-previous-installations/28031/2 "2019-08-27T09:05:45Z")

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Just nuke `deps/scratch` and rebuild.

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### Author: ![carlomontec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carlomontec/32/2011_2.png) [@carlomontec](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carlomontec)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-temporal-files-of-previous-installations/28031/3 "2019-08-27T09:06:48Z")

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That was fast, thank you very much.