.sonarlint/work directory keeps accumulating diskspace until my C drive is full

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  • Operating system: Windows 11
  • SonarQube for VS Code plugin version: 4.34.0
  • Programming language you’re coding in: Java & Typescript
  • Is connected mode used: not connected to anything

And a thorough description of the problem / question:

Every day I have to clear the C:\Users\Davy\.sonarlint\work folder, as it easily consumes 40–50GB a day.

Context: I have 5 or 6 VS Code windows open for multiple days, and am working in multiple Java and Typescript projects.

My C drive is limited to 512GB and I normally manage to keep 50GB free, but every day I get into a 0 bytes free due to .sonarlint\work directory. I cannot find a way to configure it to my second drive, so what can I do to avoid it taking up so much space?

Looking at the directory, just after trying to delete most of the files (a chunk seems to be locked by a process) there are 1500 directories, every one roughly 8MB in size. all named:

8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9545487700657005892/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9546634482818219351/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9556497559633096144/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9561730601464265448/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9563582319246109651/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9566865360698358491/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9581912420358095130/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store96068723786144081/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9610236482852402801/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9612342069281167055/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9618283648608909879/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9620071450069853363/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9632839539921448095/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9644498145270486688/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9650908730937186799/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9681914654267678830/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9695730062406174945/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9698343796063148417/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9709935031949149622/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9730782847946318183/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9734758708424670748/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9767470851342237044/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9770565414829879171/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9830695288599078594/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9838172764489874582/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9873512046672468652/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9880609169749805793/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9895586722792529444/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9898925382862833316/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9908798234527403567/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9910364291486097118/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9925283493362573596/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9929934331339271096/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9940148832673438463/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9940351276160041241/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9941933258876333081/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9954534489930715149/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9957730412043892080/
8.1M    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9968674544467109583/
8.0K    /c/Users/Davy/.sonarlint/work/known-findings-store9975484831719008014/

Is this a bug? Or is it intentional that every directory is not removed? In that case, is there a way to move this to a different drive?

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Hello @Davy_Landman,

Thanks for reporting here. We are working right now on changing how we manage storage, so this issue should soon disappear.

I am not 100% sure it will be ready for the next release (planned next Monday), but definitely for the next one 2 weeks after. In the meantime, unfortunately I don’t think there is any workaround. If it becomes too annoying, you could temporarily disable the extension.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I will keep you updated when the bug is fixed

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Hello @Davy_Landman,

This change has been released. Could you please update and check that disk consumption now stays in check?

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okay, I’ll update and keep you informed, thanks for coming back to this.