Ever Increasing Data Size

[illuzn]

Problem/Motivation

My instance of VS Code has been running for around 2 years. I haven't really been paying attention to data size since data is cheap but I've been paying close attention to it now because my backups are consuming 50GB+ to keep 90 days worth of backups.

I've noticed that VSCode takes up around 200MB each backup. I can see that this stems from primarily from 3 sources:

1. Deleted extensions are not removed from /data/vscode/extensions properly.
2. /data/vscode/User/globalStorage/lukas-tr.materialdesignicons-intellisense stores multiple copies of this extension (I had around 10 copies).
3. /data/vscode/CachedExtensionVSIXs is never cleared out and keeps extensions I installed then deleted more than 6 months ago.

Manually, deleting from these 3 folders reduces my backup size to 3.2MB.

Expected behavior

1. Removed extensions should be deleted from this folder.
2. Only 1 copy of this extension should be stored (curiously, I don't know where these come from).
3. This cache should be purged periodically, say every 30 days.

Actual behavior

1. These extensions are not deleted correctly.
2. Multiple copies are kept. Curiously the version numbering doesn't correspond with github or vs code marketplace.
3. This cache seems to be kept indefinitely.

Steps to reproduce

1. Add an extension, delete it, it should remain in this folder indefinitely.
2. Unknown, further information provided below.
3. Add an extension, delete it, it should remain in this folder indefinitely.

Further Information

Regarding number 2, I was seeing the following copies of this extension:

3.8M    ./7.0.96
3.4M    ./6.4.95
3.7M    ./6.9.96
4.6M    ./7.3.67
3.8M    ./7.1.96
3.6M    ./6.7.96
4.6M    ./7.4.47
4.5M    ./7.2.96

Curiously, these version numbers do not correspond with any github/ marketplace releases or with a VSCode version number. This extension hasn't received that many updates in the last 2 years so I don't know where these multiple versions come from.

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