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.

[diverger]

Hi,

Before I open a new post to complain about the same issue I found your post. Sadly that your situation is much worse than mine :). 

[ManuTest]

I'm having the same problem, though not that many GBs but still an unaccepable amount of folders and files, I don't believe this is strictly necessary.

In my 5 .jxbrowser-7.??.? directories, I found 35030 files, 9272 folders using up a total of 4.7 GB, what for?

The ST "solution" seems to be to escalate an internal ticket.

This is only a solution once someone actually improves this situation!

@Mahmoud Ben Romdhane 

What exactly does "as soon as possible" from November mean in this context?

[michaelmac]

Hi, 

I'm having this issue as well.  97k files and 9.5GB.  is there any more info it?  i dont see how raising a ticket with no further info constitutes an "accepted solution" to be honest! 

[Kraal]

Hi there,

I am reporting the same issue as well, in order to make it more visible.
In my case, it is roughly 50 GB taken by jx-browser 7.30.2 and 7.35.1 (roughly 300k files).

@Mahmoud Ben Romdhaneplease give us an update on the internal ticket status.

I suspect this is related to the integration of CubeMX into the IDE.

[Mahmoud Ben Romdhane]

Hello,

A normal behavior of STM32CubeMX is to delete the folders under "Profile" when closing.

If the user closes CubeMX via the "Task Manager" or by restarting the PC the "Profile" folder will not be deleted. 

Thanks.

Mahmoud