Giant plugins folder

[JvdV]

The plugins folder at C:\ST\STM32CubeIDE_1.14.1\STM32CubeIDE\plugins is 5.24 GB. It has lots of com... folders, lots of org... folders and lots of .jar files. Some of the folders are referenced among my STM32CubeIDE project Includes, even though the paths to the folders are not present among my compiler include paths.

What are all these folders and files for? Can I get rid of any? The folder is so huge. Why are they in my project anyway? Thank you for your help!

[AScha.3]

On my IDE 1.13.1 its about 4 GB...

but look at Cube repository : here (for some cpus...) it needs 24 GB, 563886 files.

So what you wanna leave away from the IDE ? and why ? :)

[JvdV]

Hi AScha.3, it's all so mysterious! Is there a way I can see which plugins my project is using and why? Now I do understand that this is a collection of plugins that might be of use for projects in general, not just mine.

[Pavel A.]

Typically the plugins dir size is under 3 GB. If it is over 5 GB, maybe you tried to install additional Eclipse components. /* Sigh, there were the days when 5 GB was the size of the whole hard drive of a laptop. */

[KnarfB]

You have alot of duplicates with differnt versions. Looks like you (or the IDE) installed a newer version into an existing folder. So you could get rid of about half the folders be a clean install. Otherwise, I wouldn't mess with those folders. Some plugins are used for STM32CubeIDE which itself is built upon Eclipse.

hth

KnarfB

[JvdV]

Indeed I started looking for bloat because my 256 GB is up :)! Recently my STM32CubeIDE 1.14 upgraded to 1.15 so perhaps that's the cause of duplications. I like the idea of a clean install in the next round. Thanks to all of you for your insights! Most appreciated.