{"id":3221,"date":"2026-03-20T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:42:19","slug":"how-to-delete-a-claude-cowork-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2026\/03\/20\/how-to-delete-a-claude-cowork-session\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete a Claude Cowork session"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turns out Claude Cowork sessions can’t be easily deleted.<\/p>\n

I was testing Claude Cowork in the app, and after two sessions, I noticed there is no way to delete the sessions (only an “Archive” button). This appears to be a known open issue, as discussed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Settings, Anthropic actually asks you to send them an email to delete sessions. Ha!<\/p>\n

Anyway, after some digging and a few greps, I had to delete my test sessions manually. For the privacy-conscious like me, here’s a two-step solution (Close the Claude App first):<\/p>\n

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  1. Delete the project files in your global .claude\/projects<\/em> directory (if one exists). The folder names here are “friendly” and easy to find.<\/li>\n
  2. Delete the related log file and folder in: C:\/Users\/<username>\/AppData\/Roaming\/Claude\/local-agent-mode-sessions<\/em> (Windows)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The second step is less friendly because the file and folder names are GUIDs (36-character strings). Unless you can grep for the content from the session, look for folders and JSON files that begin with “local_<\/em>“. For each Claude Cowork session, there is a folder and a matching file. You can delete everything in local-agent-mode-sessions to delete all sessions. Just restart your computer if you receive a VM error when you open the Claude App next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [Click title for image] Turns out Claude Cowork sessions can’t be easily deleted. I was testing Claude Cowork in the app, and after two sessions, I noticed there is no way to delete the sessions (only an “Archive” button). This appears to be a known open issue, as discussed here. In Settings, Anthropic actually asks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}