Can I clean storage ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage on my macOS 10.13.1?

[llv22]

• VSCode Version: 1.18.1
• OS Version: 10.13.1

Steps to Reproduce:

1. enter h~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage on macOS
2. found the total size is about 4GB on disk

I installed visual code one from 1.0 to 1.18.1. I'm not sure if I can clean-up on disk to save space.

Reproduces without extensions: Yes

[dbaeumer]

All extension should be able to recreate their storage although they might answer some questions. @llv22 is there a folder that is especially big? Would be good to know if there is an extension leaving garbage behind.

[dbaeumer]

In general this dups #32461. Keeping open to find out if there are special extensions causing this.

[llv22]

@dbaeumer I found that all of large file on disk is generated by redhat.java, see https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.java. almost 4.0GB together, I manually clean them by analyzing the time of folder.
Do you have better suggestions to avoid such dirty work? thanks a lot ^_^

[dbaeumer]

We are looking into having a UI in VS Code to do the cleanup. The discussion about how to best do this is on #32461.

Thanks a lot for letting us know that the most storage was taken by the Java extension.

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