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mmace1
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

What is the LuciaIndex? (Power BI AppData Folder taking up 17.5 GB)

LuciaIndex.JPG

 

 

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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @mmace1

 

Please refer to below post.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/LuciaCache-What-is-this/td-p/405078

 

Regards,

Cherie

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
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KarenL7
Advocate V
Advocate V

Hi

I am have found this thread looking to deleting the LuciaIndex and removing it.  I knew about the cache (found the other thread referred to here) - Thanks for this.

Hopefully update in the future for a automatic way to remove the index as wel.

 

THanks

 

LukeMcManagan
Advocate II
Advocate II

I wonder why there isn't an automatic archive/deletion of these files? Just discovered it's been hoarding half of my disk space

v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @mmace1

 

Please refer to below post.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/LuciaCache-What-is-this/td-p/405078

 

Regards,

Cherie

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
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Thanks  - I'd found that thread.  Just, wasn't sure it was the same since:

 

  • That refers to Lucia Cache (which I'd already cleared, based on that thread), but this is Lucia Index
  • The interface to clear the Lucia Cache from within Power BI - doesn't seem to affect the Lucia Index.

 

Anyway - I manually deleted all those folders, and nothing seems to have exploded. 

Any updates here . Shall we delete the LuciaIndex folder? it is taking 10GB of space for me.

Thanks

mmace1
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Bit late to reply...but since people seem to still be finding this thread; 

Deleting the Lucia Index folders never caused any issues for me at least. 





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