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Everything RoachNet installs or keeps is in two places in your home folder. Your data is in one of them, ~/RoachNet/storage.

macOS 1.1.41 min read
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The install

Folder What's in it Back it up?
~/RoachNet/app RoachNet.app. Its helper is RoachNet.app/Contents/Helpers/roachnet-runtime. No
~/RoachNet/runtime, ~/RoachNet/bin Support files Setup manages No
~/RoachNet/setup RoachNet Setup, when you installed with Homebrew No
~/RoachNet/storage Your data: see below Yes
~/Library/Application Support/roachnet roachnet-installer.json, the installer's settings, including the companion token's SHA-256 (the token itself before 1.1.3) No

Upgrades replace app, runtime and bin, and keep storage.

Inside storage

Folder What's in it
Vault/ Your Vault
RoachClaw/ RoachClaw's state, with the Org in RoachClaw/org/
models/ Local models
maps/pmtiles/ Map packs
zim/ Kiwix and Wikipedia archives
RoachSpeech/ModelPacks/ Speech models
packs/ Feature packs, and packs/retired/ for data you chose to retire
themes/ Your themes, and the active theme the companion reads
cluster/shards/ Model shards other Macs sent for Cluster
state/ Settings and state, including traces/, cluster.json and runtime-state/
logs/ The runtime's log, roachnet-native-api.log

state/runtime-state/native-server-info.json is written each time RoachNet.app starts the runtime, with that launch's address. It's readable by your account only, and since 1.1.3 it holds no token. Find the port and token reads it.

What to back up

Back up ~/RoachNet/storage. Copy it while RoachNet is quit, or let Time Machine include it. Everything else can be reinstalled.

Deletes your data

brew uninstall --zap --cask roachnet deletes ~/RoachNet, storage included. Deleting ~/RoachNet/storage by hand does the same.

Checked against v1.1.4 · 5 November 2026
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