How do I clear Claude, Cursor or VS Code caches on my Mac?

Q: How do I clear Claude, Cursor or VS Code caches on my Mac?

Click Clean App Caches in Storage Studio's menu bar popover. It clears only the safe, regenerable cache folders these apps keep — Cache, Code Cache, GPU caches, crash logs and the like — while your conversation history, settings and personal data are never touched. Chat and editor apps (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Slack, Discord, Teams and similar) build up large caches over time, and they rebuild what they need on next launch. If an app's whole data folder is what's big, What's Using Space can move it to your fast drive with a link left behind instead — see Move to fast drive.

Short answer: Click Clean App Caches in the menu bar popover. It clears only regenerable cache folders such as Cache, Code Cache and GPU caches; conversation history, settings and personal data are never touched.

Click Clean App Caches in Storage Studio's menu bar popover. It clears only the safe, regenerable cache folders these apps keep — Cache, Code Cache, GPU caches, crash logs and the like — while your conversation history, settings and personal data are never touched.

Chat and editor apps (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Slack, Discord, Teams and similar) build up large caches over time, and they rebuild what they need on next launch.

If an app's whole data folder is what's big, What's Using Space can move it to your fast drive with a link left behind instead — see Move to fast drive.

Last reviewed October 1, 2026

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How do I clear Claude, Cursor or VS Code caches on my Mac?

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