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I am facing an issue of recovering free disk space in my main partition. I found these files in my Users folder. These folders named as previous versions of IntelliJ allocate 1.5GB in my disk space. Is it safe to delete these files?

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Sahan Amarsha
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Not sure when it was added, but Intellij now has a feature in the UI to delete old directories.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#clean-up-old-ide-dirs

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dachiz
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  • This is great. Also removed leftovers that I did not find myself. And you get to choose what to keep. – djvg Jul 22 '22 at 10:02
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Yes, it's safe to delete these directories if you no longer use the specified IDE versions.

Note that location of the IDE directories has changed since 2020.1 release.

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