huggingface.adoc

Huggingface

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• List of files and folders on boot drive
• Additional notes
  • Telemetry

Introduction

Huggingface by default stores a lot of data on the boot drive. This includes often dozens of gigabytes of cache. You might be affected if you are running AI Python scripts and/or applications, like Stable Diffusion or Tortoise TTS. This is a list of default locations and links to guides on how to migrate them to a non-boot drive.

List of files and folders on boot drive

• ~\.cache\huggingface - Huggingface Hub home directory. Guide: Huggingface Hub and cache

Additional notes

Telemetry

Huggingface libraries (transformers, datasets, Gradio,…​) are collecting telemetry data, with each library defining its own policy. To turn telemetry off globally, create a HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY environment variable and set its value to 1.

Alternatively, you can run the following PowerShell script to disable telemetry: hfHubDisableTelemetry.ps1

pwsh .\hfHubDisableTelemetry.ps1

Official documentation: HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY