How to clear the model cache and free disk space - Bring AI Home

This guide frees the space Redact uses. Nothing here touches your documents or source code. Stop qvac:service and any running analysis first.

What uses the space

Path (inside `redact/`)	Size	Recreated by
`node_modules/`	about 2.8 GB	`npm ci`
`.qvac/models/`	about 550 MB	the next analysis, `qvac:ocr-smoke` or `qvac:evaluate` (needs network)
`.qvac/runtime-home/`	small	the next service start
`.next/`	varies	`npm run dev` or `npm run build`

All four are ignored by Git.

Remove the models only

rm -rf .qvac/models

The next analysis downloads them again. The offline commands refuse to run until you download them again.

Reset QVAC’s worker state

If loads fail after an interrupted download, remove the worker home too:

rm -rf .qvac/runtime-home

Remove everything Redact installed

rm -rf node_modules .qvac .next

Models always go to .qvac/models, so this removes everything Redact downloaded. The service and the offline commands also keep QVAC’s worker state inside the project. npm run qvac:ocr-smoke does not set a project worker home, so its worker state goes to the default ~/.qvac; see Where QVAC writes files.