Enormous amount of data getting generated in C:\Users\Bamboo\AppData\Roaming\Partitions folder

[aditimalik22]

What would you like?

I'd like to be able to understand what data gets generated in the partition folder and how can we control it.
We have approximately 15 projects that are using Cypress. All these are hosted on the server and run on Bamboo. From time to time, there are files worth Gb(s) that get generated in the C:.Users\Bamboo\AppData\Roaming\Partitions folder.

As of now, we have to manually delete these files but we are looking for a long-term solution.

Videos are turned off for most projects. Is there any way to control the contents of this folder?

Why is this needed?

I want this because these files sometimes paralyze our server..

Other

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[wimme]

Not sure if it is the exact same issue, but on our CI machines (Jenkins) we see something similar:

C:\Users\BuildUser\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects

This folder contains "appname-e2e-guid" folders (seems to be linked to our Nx Angular apps) with javascript bundles, in total 53 GB and growing.

We also have this on our Linux CI machines (Jenkins):

/home/builduser/.config/Cypress/cy/production/projects

I couldn't find any information about this. Are we doing something wrong causing these files to be generated?
Should Cypress automatically clear this? Do we have to run a certain command to clear them?

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[gkrishna08]

@cypress-app-bot facing same issue while running the cypress on CI/Jenkins pipeline.. any update on this.
Thanks in advance

[jennifer-shehane]

This is the Cypress App Data which is used to store things like preferences. It should be safe for you to delete everything in the cy folder if you want to add that into your automated process.

I know a lot of local state for cypress open is stored in there. I’m a little less sure of what the utility would be on a CI machine and whether we need to write data in that case.

What’s the size of the folders?

[xuanvinhvu]

We're seeing this issue as well with our CI runs where our agent basically ran out of storage. The files are in /home/jenkins/.config/Cypress/cy/production/projects. Currently we're deleting the files using a cron job.