Does anyone know where the plugin's chat cache is stored?

[AfterStories]

Validations

• I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement

Problem

Even thought I deleted the C:/User/xxxx/.continue folder ,but it didn't clear these caches.

I found that when I uninstalled and reinstalled the continue plugin, the chat history before uninstall was displayed again.

I hope to delete the chat history cache to facilitate the simulation test of the user's first use plugin scenario
thank you

Solution

No response

[Patrick-Erichsen]

I believe it is in sessions.json in the .continue folder, so not sure why you would have seen previous messages after removing.

[RomneyDa]

@AfterStories if @Patrick-Erichsen's answer isn't what you're looking for then you'll want local storage persist:root value, which persists redux state in application local storage. Can be accessed/cleared from dev tools

[AfterStories]

@RomneyDa Thank you! try to clean local storage by dev tools ，It did indeed work！
But this seems a bit strange. The chat history in the UI should be strictly read from the session file content for easy management, if also existing in local storage at the same time, causing confusion

[RomneyDa]

@AfterStories agreed, this has been built in to the app for a long time and I think the reason it never left is that the redux persist gate with local storage is super fast so it shows the user something on startup, and it's less of a security concern to persist the contents ("history") of one chat session than to persist e.g. config, which is no longer persisted.

But currently config reloading is triggered a few times anyways on startup in ways that cause a flash/refresh of the GUI anyways, so might be better to show a loading page for a sec.

This is on my list but not super high priority right now, any poking/contributions on this front would be appreciated