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GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use.
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Feature: Option to not save chat(s) to disk at all #1904

Open jensdraht1999 opened 8 months ago

jensdraht1999 commented 8 months ago

System Info

GTP4ALL 2.6.2 Windows 10 latest updates 10500H RTX 3060 Laptop

Reproduction

1.) Disable "saving chats to disk" by unchecking. 2.) Make any prompt. 3.) Exit the application normally. 4.) It will not save the whole chat with context, but it save a small chat file regardless "nomic.ai\GPT4All" folder.

For Privacy reasons I would not like them to be saved.

Expected behavior

It should not save a file with the content of the chat.

brankoradovanovic-mcom commented 8 months ago

I believe you are referring to a checkbox labeled "Save chats context to disk". However, it switches on or off the saving of the chat context rather than the chat itself. As far as I can tell, all open chats are always saved upon exit, and there is no way to turn this off.

A related issue is #1779 - this would at least make chat cleanup easier for users who don't want to keep them across sessions.

jensdraht1999 commented 7 months ago

@brankoradovanovic-mcom Yes, the file will be at max 10kb or something like that, but if you open with editor, you can see, which prompts have been entered. I do not like this for privacy reasons.