# Can I delete .local wandb-related files? **URL:** \ **Category:** W&B Help\ **Tags:** wandb, beginner-friendly\ **Created:** [December 16, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554 "2023-12-16T12:22:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![patocal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@patocal](https://community.wandb.ai/u/patocal)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/1 "2023-12-16T12:22:13Z")
Hi Artsiom and team, my home drive on the cluster has hard limit on usage (50gb). I’m currently over the limit and I can see that .local has a lot of wandb files in there. Is it safe to remove? Cheers, Patrick ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/2 "2023-12-18T20:11:15Z")
Hi @patocal! I’ll be more than happy to help 🙂 What operating system are you running on your cluster? ---
**Author:** ![patocal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@patocal](https://community.wandb.ai/u/patocal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/3 "2023-12-20T08:34:12Z")
(base) [uqpocall@bunya3 unlimiformer-20-dec-baseline]$ cat /etc/os-release NAME=“Rocky Linux” VERSION=“8.8 (Green Obsidian)” ID=“rocky” ID\_LIKE=“rhel centos fedora” VERSION\_ID=“8.8” PLATFORM\_ID=“platform:el8” PRETTY\_NAME=“Rocky Linux 8.8 (Green Obsidian)” ANSI\_COLOR=“0;32” LOGO=“fedora-logo-icon” CPE\_NAME=“cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8:GA” HOME\_URL=“[https://rockylinux.org/](https://rockylinux.org/)” BUG\_REPORT\_URL=“[https://bugs.rockylinux.org/](https://bugs.rockylinux.org/)” SUPPORT\_END=“2029-05-31” ROCKY\_SUPPORT\_PRODUCT=“Rocky-Linux-8” ROCKY\_SUPPORT\_PRODUCT\_VERSION=“8.8” REDHAT\_SUPPORT\_PRODUCT=“Rocky Linux” REDHAT\_SUPPORT\_PRODUCT\_VERSION=“8.8” (base) [uqpocall@bunya3 unlimiformer-20-dec-baseline]$ lsb\_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Rocky Description: Rocky Linux release 8.8 (Green Obsidian) Release: 8.8 Codename: GreenObsidian (base) [uqpocall@bunya3 unlimiformer-20-dec-baseline]$ hostnamectl Static hostname: bunya3.rcc.uq.edu.au Icon name: computer-vm Chassis: vm Machine ID: 5d32e608237b450ca4b4c99a2aa0cc4d Boot ID: 405864f3071c4f639eb3e60aafeac173 Virtualization: kvm Operating System: Rocky Linux 8.8 (Green Obsidian) CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8:GA Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-477.27.1.el8\_8.x86\_64 Architecture: x86-64 \*\* By the way, I tested it out and it seems to work fine. ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/4 "2023-12-20T16:31:54Z")
Could you please point me to the .local folder you are talking about (I found a couple of them on my computer, without wandb files). Is this the one that is in your root directory? > \*\* By the way, I tested it out and it seems to work fine. Sounds like you deleted your folder, very brave of you 🙂 It honestly should be fine, the `.local` directory often contains various user-specific data, including the files used by W&B for logging and syncing runs. The `.wandb` files within this directory are used to store metadata and logs for your experiments. And would be used to sync your runs if you ran them in the offline mode. ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/5 "2023-12-26T15:56:02Z")
Hi @patocal! Wanted to follow up with your regarding this thread! ---
**Author:** ![patocal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@patocal](https://community.wandb.ai/u/patocal)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/6 "2023-12-26T23:41:22Z")
Hi @artsiom, the .local directory I’m referring to is in my home directory on the cluster. I can’t give you any more details at the moment as I’m away on holiday and access to the cluster is not that easy. ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/7 "2023-12-27T20:41:18Z")
No worries at all. Happy holidays and looking forward to hearing from you. ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/8 "2024-01-02T18:27:55Z")
Hey @patocal! any updates on your side? ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/can-i-delete-local-wandb-related-files/5554/9 "2024-01-08T15:05:56Z")
Hi, since we have not heard back from you, we are going to close this request. If you would like to reopen the conversation, please let us know! Unfortunately, at the moment, we do not receive notifications if a thread reopens on Discourse. So, please feel free to create a new ticket regarding your concern if you’d like to continue the conversation.