diskdiet for VS Code

See what developer caches and old project folders use your disk, and free space safely without leaving the editor.

Disk space view in the activity bar: npm, Yarn, pnpm, Bun, pip, uv, Cargo, Go, Gradle, Maven, Playwright, Cypress, Xcode and Docker caches, plus the node_modules and target folders of projects you haven't touched, biggest first, with what can go.
Free Disk Space… lets you pick what to free. Package caches are ticked by default; node_modules, target folders and Docker only if you tick them, and you can keep individual projects. It always asks before removing anything.
"No space left on device"? When a command in the terminal fails with ENOSPC, diskdiet offers to free space right away.
Status bar and reminders: shows how much can be freed when it passes 10 GB, and checks in the background every 6 hours.

diskdiet removes only what hasn't been used lately (30 days by default; change it with diskdiet: Set What Counts as Old…). Everything removed from a cache downloads again when a project needs it.

The diskdiet binary for your OS is built in; nothing else to install.

Settings

Setting	Default
`diskdiet.olderThanDays`	`30`	What counts as old; `0` counts everything
`diskdiet.statusBar`	`aboveThreshold`	`always`, `aboveThreshold` or `never`
`diskdiet.warnAboveGB`	`10`	Notify once per session above this; `0` turns it off
`diskdiet.checkEveryHours`	`6`	Background checks; `0` turns them off
`diskdiet.detectDiskFull`	`true`	Offer to free space when a terminal command runs out of disk
`diskdiet.path`		Use another diskdiet binary

Also available as a CLI, a desktop app with a tray icon, and an MCP server for AI assistants: https://github.com/roystondwork-dev/diskdiet.

diskdiet - Free Developer Disk Space

diskdiet

diskdiet for VS Code

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