Storage

Settings › Storage, or /storage, measures what Newen keeps on this computer when it opens: Newen uses 1.4 GB, in its data folder. Refresh measures again; Open folder shows the folder.

Under What it keeps, each part has its size, Details (its largest items, up to twelve) and, where something can go, a button to free it. Each clear asks first and says what it will remove.

Part	What it is	Free it
Sessions	The conversations and the pictures their tools returned	Delete inactive: sessions with no message for 30 days that are neither pinned nor working
File history	The shadow repositories behind undo, one per folder	Remove unused: those of folders no session works in
Worktrees	Git worktrees of the repositories sessions work in	Remove unused: see below
Newen	The installed versions and downloaded programs	Nothing here to free; updates keep only the current and previous versions
Caches and logs	Logos, the browser’s cache, logs	Clear: logos and the browser’s cache are fetched again when needed

What is never deleted

• Your folders and files. Deleting a session removes its conversation and pictures from this computer; its folder stays.
• Pinned sessions, and sessions that are working.
• A worktree that is not clean, is locked, holds commits no branch or tag holds, has a session working in or around it, or changed in the last 30 days. Worktrees are removed with git’s own git worktree remove, which refuses anything with changes.
• File history of folders a session still works in.
• Sign-ins and logs, when clearing caches. The browser’s cache is cleared the next time the browser starts, before it opens its profile.

If something could not be freed, the page says Not freed: and why, under the total.

Note

The main worktree of a repository is never listed: only the extra ones.