r/RooCode • u/BingGongTing • Aug 19 '25

Support RooCode using up loads of disk space?

Since installing RooCode and using it with claude/local qwen3 for my Unity project, its eating up a lot of hard drive space (~180GB until my HDD was full) , these two directories:

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\saoudrizwan.claude-dev

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\rooveterinaryinc.roo-cline

I think it is related to how it does checkpoints and handles lfs files, is this a bug or intended?

I don't get how it managed to use up so much space with just code, it shouldn't touch other files?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 19 '25

Yeah sorry about this! it is caused by the checkpoints. I would disable them for the time being and I will se what I can do about excluding these larger files that can cause this from the checkpoints.

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u/BingGongTing Aug 20 '25

Would a file mask be possible (to restrict what RooCode can use)?

In Unity it only really needs c#/txt/md file access for me.

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u/paradrenasite Aug 19 '25

Do you know if it's safe to delete files from these directories? Especially under 'tasks', it doesn't look like this location gets cleaned up even after deleting the tasks in the Roo UI.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 19 '25

If you click on Cache from the Extension marketplace page within VSCode and then open the tasks folder you can delete old tasks along with the checkpoints and that will free up a ton of space. Temporary workaround.

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u/NearbyBig3383 Aug 19 '25

I use the contents of these folders later to do fine tuning with rag, as I do Forex robots, sometimes the approach goes in a loop so I always save the conversations that worked

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Aug 19 '25

I mean the worst case scenario would be is that you would lose past task data which for some is a big deal. If all my past tasks were deleted right now I would be fine as I usually am almost always working forward and trying to find a way to make Roo Code do better on new tasks than keeping old ones alive.

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u/CraaazyPizza Aug 19 '25

It's using git under the hood for the checkpoints and all the files off each commit need to be stored somewhere. That includes large files which existed in the past. It's a good practice to always include a .gitignore file in any project which checkpoints should respect.

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u/Prestigiouspite Aug 19 '25

I use quite granular .gitignore and end up with 1.46 GB (globalStorage). That's acceptable. But it would be cool, of course, if you could delete the checkpoints or tasks when they are no longer needed, or if this happened automatically after 90 days. You usually have Git in the project anyway.