<p>You can manually delete any nix store with <code>nix store delete</code>, just remember if there is a symbolic link pointing to a nix store, nix will refuse to delete it, you shoud remove any dependency first.</p>

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<p>I just finished installing plutus-apps and running nix-shell for the first time on a new computer. I noticed that the file size is pushing 60gb is there anyway for me to clean up some of the unused files. I read that nix garbage collector or <code>nix-store --gc</code> will cut down on some of this but I'm afraid I might lose some of the plutus-apps files and have to rebuild again.</p>
<p>What should I do?</p>

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Can I run garbage collector after installing plutus-apps?
# Can I run garbage collector after installing plutus-apps?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-09-21)

I just finished installing plutus-apps and running nix-shell for the first time on a new computer. I noticed that the file size is pushing 60gb is there anyway for me to clean up some of the unused files. I read that nix garbage collector or `nix-store --gc` will cut down on some of this but I'm afraid I might lose some of the plutus-apps files and have to rebuild again.

What should I do?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-09-26. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

You can manually delete any nix store with `nix store delete`, just remember if there is a symbolic link pointing to a nix store, nix will refuse to delete it, you shoud remove any dependency first.


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