# Can I delete old AndroidStudio folders in Application Support?

- URL: https://moreroom.app/folders/android-studio-configs
- Item: Android Studio settings from old versions
- Location: `~/Library/Application Support/Google` (items inside)
- Verdict: Review first — Might hold something you care about. Look inside before removing it.
- Comes back on its own: no
- Source: MoreRoom rules catalogue (2026-10-17), by Yando Pte. Ltd.

## What is it?

Each Android Studio release keeps its own settings folder in `~/Library/Application Support/Google`, named after the version (for example `AndroidStudio2024.2`): your IDE preferences, keymaps, code styles, installed plugins and recent projects. When you update, Android Studio imports settings from the previous folder but leaves it in place.

## What happens if you delete it?

Old folders are not recreated. Once you have updated and your current version has its own copy of your settings, removing an older one loses nothing you use; removing the current one resets Android Studio to defaults.

## How to remove it properly

Quit Android Studio, open `~/Library/Application Support/Google` with Finder’s Go › Go to Folder…, and move the folders of versions you no longer run to the Trash, keeping the newest one.

## Before you delete it

If you run a stable and a preview (Canary or Beta) build side by side, each has its own folder: keep both.