# How can I clean the dataset cache?
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**Author:**  [@denis-kazakov](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fdenis-kazakov)%5C
**Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-clean-the-dataset-cache%2F73033%2F1 "2024-02-13T16:59:26Z")
The datasets cache (/.cache/huggingface/datasets/) is taking up a lot of space with data that I no longer need and can’t even remember which dataset they come from. How can I clear this cache?
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**Author:**  [@lhoestq](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Flhoestq)%5C
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-clean-the-dataset-cache%2F73033%2F2 "2024-02-19T16:35:26Z")
Feel free to delete the `download` directory. Then all the other directories are named after the datasets, and contain the cache files when you do `load_dataset()` and to reload cached `map()` results
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**Author:**  [@denis-kazakov](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fdenis-kazakov)%5C
**Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-clean-the-dataset-cache%2F73033%2F3 "2024-02-24T19:14:27Z")
Thank you!
I also have a bunch of other directories named like .cache/huggingface/datasets/csv/default-60ad0c15aa7a6ff6/0.0.0/
I guess these are caches of datasets that I created and can delete them without breaking the system. They simply won’t be available any more, right?
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**Author:**  [@lhoestq](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Flhoestq)%5C
**Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-clean-the-dataset-cache%2F73033%2F4 "2024-02-26T18:35:19Z")
Yes correct. To be more specific they correspond to the cache of the datasets that you loaded with `load_dataset("csv" ...)` (it’s also the old location for datasets in CSV format from the Hugging Face Hub)
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**Author:**  [@denis-kazakov](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fdenis-kazakov)%5C
**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 10:08am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-can-i-clean-the-dataset-cache%2F73033%2F5 "2024-03-01T10:08:05Z")
Thank you for your help!