Hello;
I ran into a little proble today; I was willing to clean my Asset Store “My Assets” list, because there are quite a few assets in here that I only tried out once and never touched again. It tickles me because I would like to keep only the ones that I paid for in this list…
Is there any way to clean it up, by which I mean removing assets from this list ?
In the asset store window in Unity editor, there should be a garbage can icon next to the asset. Clicking it moves the asset to the “bin”, and will no longer show up in the default asset store page in the Unity editor.
Removing an asset from your list in the Asset Store has nothing to do with removing it from one of your projects, if that is what you mean by “inside the editor”.
I know, but it has to do much with disk-space which is used :-p So I want to remove unused but downloaded assets from my system. In earlier versions of Unity there was a delete button, but now I’ve to go manually to the folder in my system and delete the assets there. So my question was, if there’s an easier way inside of Unity :-p
I don’t want to hide anything I bought from the bought-list in Unity, I want to remove the downlaoded-files/assets from my system without doing it manually from the folder in my system :-p
All right, your post was a bit unclear. The only way to delete the downloaded assets is by doing it manually. May I ask why you don’t want to do that?
Edit : Wait, you can delete a project from within the editor, just select everything that is under “Assets” in the Project view, then press the “DEL” key and click on “Delete”. You won’t be able to delete the packages that way though.
Argh… please read what I wrote: I want to delete the Assets Unity downloaded through the Asset Store which are in the download-folder in my system NOT(!) in my project.
Look at my screenshot… there was a trash-bin in earlier versions, which disappears in 2018.x
I don’t want to do it manually in the folders on my system
Windows: C:\Users*UserName*\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Asset Store
macOS: ~/Library/Unity/Asset\ Store/
But it seems that Unity removed that really useful feature…
Why not do it manually? Good maintenance of your desktop workstation is your responsiblity, and not the job of the Unity company. I deleted my entire desktop computer’s local Unity asset downloads (from three years), and then just downloaded what I use a lot.
To delete from your Unity account list forever, at this time you have to go to the old asset store and find the trash can next to the asset name, as of December, 2018 when I wrote this.
The new asset store has a “hide” link but it keeps changing. They released the new asset store and then keep changing things; it’s in a state of alpha so I wouldn’t even suggest using the new store until the Unity staff in charge of the asset store get their act together and fix it. Hard to say what “hide” means. It’s like other features in the new asset store which magically appear and then are removed later.
I ran into this today. SSD Drive was rammed full with downloads so far back it was nostalgic!. A totally understand how to manually delete it, but a little clear all button in Unity would make more sense. You can’t expect many to figure out how to purge those files. Plus, it’s quite confusing that this folder is not in your project folder. Compare it to your internet browser for a second and tell me that the clear browser history isn’t similar! They have a button
I agree. Perhaps one day it will be better. But for now it is good to have an understanding of where to find the Unity asset cache on your hard drive.
For example, last night I noticed that some assets had changed the name of the folder, so there were two versions of many assets in the cache. This means there was an older version and then the updated version. So I deleted all the duplicates and downloaded the updated versions again.
It is also confusing because the names of the folder is the company name, and not the asset name, so looking down a list of 100+ cached assets will be a long list of company names, and finding a specific asset is very difficult. It is possible to use a utility like “File Seek” free version for this: https://www.fileseek.ca/Download/