On Windows 10 my .julia folder has over 18Gbytes of space used. There are hundreds of thousands of files under .julia Running Pkg.gc has no effect on the number of files. I decided to uninstall Julia (I use juliaup) then delete the .julia directory MOAN - Windows runs a graphical file browser whi…

I nearly always use Shift-Del for file and folder deletion. The RecycleBin stays empty and clean always :wink: which I like. Well, the deletion process still has the graphical visuals but its not a major time issue for me (ssd?) even for much larger data. This depends on hardware and file system. …

Windows command line: “Removes (deletes) a directory.” rd /s /q

[image] johnh: One other small thing - should there be a remove / uninstall method in juliaup ? FWIW, on linux / macos there is juliaup self uninstall.

[image] johnh: my .julia folder has over 18Gbytes of space used. That is the source of this issue

[image] johnh: On Windows 10 my .julia folder has over 18Gbytes of space used. That seems slightly excessive. You can find tools like this which report where the space is spent. This would probably be interesting for others as well.

Not difficult to guess where space is spent. I referred to it before, the artifacts come with an excessive bloat of needless files (headers, (large) static libs, etc).

[image] joa-quim: Not difficult to guess where space is spent. I referred to it before, the artifacts come with an excessive bloat of needless files (headers, (large) static libs, etc). But there might be certain packages which exhibit this behavior and could be optimized? Just for reference…

Sorry, I only looked into .julia.packages, .julia is around 10 GB for me, too. Worst offenders here: conda with 3 GB, compiled with 2.2 GB, MKL’s in artifacts (around 600 MB for each version) followed by Enzyme in artifacts (around 300 MB for each version) followed by Mosek in packages (around 200…

Windows - a moan about deleting Julia

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Windows - a moan about deleting Julia

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