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184184In the window, users can clean up their own inactive sessions on the device, except pinned ones:
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186186* **Chats and Cowork tasks**: the app deletes them, including runs of scheduled tasks. It also deletes their outputs and their copies of attached files in the [application-data directory](#where-data-lives). For a chat, the app also deletes the live artifacts (interactive pages) that Claude created in the chat. Other files stay, such as the live artifacts of a Cowork task or of a [home-screen conversation that is a Cowork session](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/unified-claude.md), the rest of `~/Claude/`, and files in folders that the user connected. The live artifacts of chats deleted before Claude Desktop 4.16336.0 stay too.
187* **Code sessions**: the app removes their [Git worktrees](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees) and, if the user chooses, deletes the sessions with their conversations
187* **Code sessions**: the app removes their [Git worktrees](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees) that have no uncommitted changes, except those it can't safely remove, such as a worktree that another session uses. It removes worktrees with uncommitted changes only if the user selects the **Also remove** checkbox, and then those changes are lost. If the user chooses, the app also deletes the sessions with their conversations, but not a session whose worktree stays.
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189189Users can't undo these deletions.
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