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Jan

Menlo Research

high sensitivity likely Linux · macOS · Windows

transcript high

dir may hold personal data · source code

Jan stores each conversation thread (messages.jsonl) under its data folder; older installs used ~/jan directly.

Where it lives

  • macOS ~/Library/Application Support/Jan/data/threadsdir
  • Linux ~/.local/share/Jan/data/threadsdir
  • Windows ~/AppData/Roaming/Jan/data/threadsdir
  • all ~/jan/threadsdir

What you can do

  • Prune old threads from the Jan data folder to reduce local retention.

Source: jan.ai

This describes where Jan stores data. Metadata only, never your content. Confidence: likely. Spot a mistake? Tell us.