How do I unpin and remove all IPFS content from my machine?
to unpin all added content: ipfs pin ls –type recursive | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | xargs -n1 ipfs pin rm then optionally run storage garbage collection to actually remove things: ipfs repo gc
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Please run `npm cache clean`
As of npm@5, the npm cache self-heals from corruption issues and data extracted from the cache is guaranteed to be valid. If you want to make sure everything is consistent, use npm cache verify instead. On the other hand, if you’re debugging an issue with the installer, you can use npm install –cache /tmp/empty-cache to … Read more
Where does IPFS store all the data?
When you upload something, the file is chunked by ipfs and stored in your cache folder (.ipfs). If you check the file existance on another peer of the network (say the main gateway, ipfs.io) that peer requests the file from you and caches it too. If later you switch off your daemon and you can … Read more