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I accidentally clicked the Claude Cowork button inside the Claude desktop app. I never used it. I didn't notice anything at the time, but a week later I discovered the huge VM file on my disk.

It would be really nice to ask the user, “Are you sure you want to use Cowork, it will download and install a huge VM on your disk.”

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Same. I work on M3 Pro with 512GB disk, and most of the time I have aroung 50GB free that goes down to 1GB often quite quick (I work with video editing and photos and caches are agressive there). I use apps like Pretty Clean and some own scripts (for brew clean, deleting Flutter builds, etc). So every 10GB used is a big deal for me.

Also discovered that VM image eating 10GB for no reason. I have Claude Desktop installed, but almost never use it (mostly Claude Code).

Jesus Christ what kind of potatos are you using when 10 GB of disk space are even noticable for you?

If I had been tethering to mobile hotspot at the time it would have instantly used 500 pesos of data. That’s 3x my monthly electric bill.

Must be an apple thing

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