~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/ contains almost a million entries!

Talkless

I was reviewing what duply (duplicitly) is backuping in my Linux workstation. Discovered almost a million entries in ~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/ !:

~$ find ~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/ | wc -l
824729

.qbs files takes half of it:

$ find ~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/ -name "*.qbs" | wc -l
403509

Another half are directories:

$ find ~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/ -type d | wc -l
408133

There can be found files for very old Qt, not used for "century":

.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.19.0/profiles/qtc_5_2_1_1f7b9901/

I guess I can delete that qbs folder to start from scratch? I don't use qbs at all... But is this "normal" for it to grow "indefinellty"? Could this be QtCreator's bug worth reporing?

Thanks.

aha_1980

@Talkless That looks definitely like a bug, especially if you don't use QBS.

The only question that arises: do you also have new entries there, or are they all ancient?

Talkless

@aha_1980 latest is 2.3.1:

:~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs$ ls -1 | sort -V
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.6.0
1.6.1
1.7.0
1.7.1
1.7.2
1.8.0
1.8.1
1.9.0
1.9.1
1.10.0
1.10.1
1.11.0
1.11.1
1.12.0
1.12.1
1.12.2
1.13.0
1.13.1
1.14.0
1.14.1
1.15.0
1.16.0
1.17.0
1.17.1
1.18.0
1.18.1
1.18.2
1.19.0
1.19.1
1.19.2
1.20.0
1.20.1
1.21.0
1.22.0
1.22.1
1.23.0
1.23.1
1.24.0
1.24.1
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.3.1
profiles

aha_1980

Hi @Talkless,

I cannot reproduce that, I only have a couple of entries:

.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.19.2
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.20.1
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.21.0
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.23.2
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/1.24.0
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/2.0.0
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/2.0.1
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/2.2.0
.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs/2.2.1

So if you report a bug, please leave a link to the report here (and mention this thread in the bugreport) so others can follow.

Talkless

Created bug report: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-31128