PromptDustTranscripts
GPT4All
GPT4All saves each conversation as a .chat file (a binary transcript) in its data directory.
Exposure
- Stores found
- 1
- Holds
- personal data · source code
- Confidence
- likely
Where it writes
1 store in the current signature database. Paths shown for a typical macOS install.
binary may hold personal data · source code
- macOS
~/Library/Application Support/nomic.ai/GPT4All/*.chat - Linux
~/.local/share/nomic.ai/GPT4All/*.chat - Windows
~/AppData/Local/nomic.ai/GPT4All/*.chat
GPT4All saves each conversation as a .chat file (a binary transcript) in its data directory.
- Remove old .chat files to clear local conversation history (downloaded models sit in the same directory).
Source: github.com
What to do about it
PromptDust flags these stores and leaves them in place; cleanup is your call. If a store holds a live secret, rotate the secret first, since deleting the file won’t un-leak a key that already sat in plain text.
For ongoing work, keep sensitive material out of sessions where you can, and prune old transcripts and caches now and then.
This describes where GPT4All stores data. Metadata only, never your content. Confidence: likely. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
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One pass finds every store, for this tool and the other 51.