Hesitantly, Alex clicked inside. Local was huge—120 GB. Alex opened it and found five different versions of Adobe After Effects caches, a forgotten Minecraft launcher from 2018, and three overlapping Google Chrome profiles, each with its own 10GB cache.
Local nodded, opened his vault, and accepted terabytes of shader caches and preview renders. Days turned into weeks. Alex’s SSD began to groan. appdata directory
Alex paused.
"Why am I so full?" Alex muttered, right-clicking on Drive C in despair. "I've deleted all my Documents. I've emptied the Downloads folder. Yet… I have only 2GB left!" Hesitantly, Alex clicked inside
Local felt a pang of hurt. Garbage? These were the render intermediates that had saved Alex four times last week when the power flickered! That Minecraft launcher held a world their nephew had built before moving overseas! Local nodded, opened his vault, and accepted terabytes
They ran a disk cleanup. The standard wizard cleaned the Recycle Bin and temporary internet files. It didn't help.