multiple .jxbrowser -* folders are eating my drive space

[Al-E-Bags]

Hi all.  I have been witnessing a rapidly shrinking amount of free space on my C drive.  On a regular drive clean up of non-essential data, I can generally remove 1 Gigabyte or so of temporary files.  This however, does not account for the rapid depletion of available free space. 

On further investigation, I looked into the 'Other' (Manage other large folders) section of the 'System -> Storage' properties of my Windows 11 C drive.  I was a little gob-smacked to discover that - between them - the ST related folders: stm32cubeide, stm32cubemx, STM32Cube and ST contain over 100Gb of data.

Obviously allowing for software packs and the various STM applications in daily use, I found a considerable amount of data was held in several .jxbrowser folders across more than one location.  For example, the .jxbrowser-7.38.2 folder inside the stm32cubemx directory - alone - is at a whopping 17.5Gb.  I don't see any way of cleaning them or whether or not it is safe to do so but I read elsewhere (on other sites) that they should be left alone.  The screen grab below indicates the total size of the multiple .jxbrowser folders in stm32cubeide: 

 Does anyone else have any experience with this?  Better still, if there is a solution I would love to know what it is, hopefully before my drive gets chockers-full.   Thanks in advance.     

[Mahmoud Ben Romdhane]

Hello @Al-E-Bags ,

First let me thank you for posting.

Your request is under investigation, and I will get back to you ASAP.

Thanks.

Mahmoud

[Mahmoud Ben Romdhane · Accepted solution]

Hello @Al-E-Bags 

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention, I am escalating an internal ticket (197324 for internal follow-up) 

and it will be fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks.

Mahmoud

[Egolt.1]

Hello,

Any update on this issue?

Is there a way to clean it manually without harming existing projects?

Thanks! 

[Al-E-Bags]

@Egolt.1 It is possible to keep the issue under control to some degree.  I manage it by deleting the folders with the oldest content first but stop way before the most recent (just to be safe).  I haven't noticed any negative impact on my system by doing this but I can't say with any certainty whether or not it's good practice.  If I recall correctly, last time did this, I removed some 720,000 separate files.  I just knew I had to free up some space somehow.  Hope this helps.