Question

Rider takes too much disk space. How to use only the required minimum?

Answer

The minimum required disk space for Rider is 2,5 GB.

There are some special folders which Rider uses to store its data (logs, caches, old snapshots, etc.). Typically, the size of those folders should not be significant. However, in some cases, size can increase noticeably.

What could be safely removed:

• old versions
• logs
• snapshots

Old version and leftovers

In Toolbox | Settings | Tools:

1. Enable Keep only the latest version...
2. Click Remove the previous versions
3. Clean up leftover too directories
4. Clear the download cache

Files and folders are safe to delete

on Windows

• %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp - contains dotMemory snapshots
• %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\Rider{version}\resharper-host\temp - contains dotTrace snapshots
• %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\Rider{version}\resharper-host\local\Transient - contains different kinds of Rider caches Note: deleting this folder will trigger full solution analysis as it contains solution-wide-analysis caches. It can take some time.
• %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\Rider{version}\log - contains Rider log files.

on OSX

• /Users⁩/⁨{User}/⁨Library/⁨Caches/⁨JetBrains/Rider{version}/⁨resharper-host⁩/local/Transient - contains different kinds of Rider caches. Note: deleting this folder will trigger full solution analysis as it contains solution-wide-analysis caches.
• /Users⁩/⁨{User}/⁨Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Rider{version}/resharper-host/Sessions
• /Users⁩/⁨{User}/⁨Library/⁨Logs⁩/JetBrains/Rider{version} - contains Rider log files.

on Linux

• ~/.Cache/JetBrains/Rider{version}/resharper-host/local/Transient - Contains different kinds of Rider caches. Note: deleting this folder will trigger full solution analysis as it contains solution-wide-analysis caches.
• ~/.Config/JetBrains/Rider{version}/resharper-host/Sessions
• ~/.Cache/JetBrains/Rider{version}/log - contains Rider log files.