{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"ripgrep-file-walks-skip-other-apps-data-on-macos","canonical_anchor":"ripgrep-file-walks-skip-other-apps-data-on-macos","heading":"On macOS, file searches skip other apps' private data folders","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/ripgrep-file-walks-skip-other-apps-data-on-macos","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### On macOS, file searches skip other apps' private data folders\n\nOn macOS, Claude Code's file listing now leaves out other apps' data folders under `~\/Library` and stops counting files early from your home folder\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code uses ripgrep, a fast file-search program, to list files. On macOS, file listing now skips these folders when it would otherwise go into them:\n\n- `~\/Library\/Containers`\n\n- `~\/Library\/Group Containers`\n\n- `~\/Library\/Mobile Documents`\n\nThe step that counts files also stops early when it starts in your home folder or any folder above it. Before, it only stopped early for your home folder itself.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf you start Claude Code from your home folder, you avoid macOS privacy pop-ups asking about other apps' data, and searches don't slow down scanning folders that don't matter.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}