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Now that I have Android Studio 1.0, could I safely delete .AndroidStudioBeta folder?
I noticed I had two distinct folders .AndroidStudio and .AndroidStudioBeta. My version of Android Studio is 1.0.x, so it is not the beta any more. According to some help page linked in another question, I checked the idea.properties file and it links to the .AndroidStudio folder. I am wondering if there is any other place where such folder is referenced (and .AndroidStudioBeta might therefore still be used).
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After deleting all these folders, go to C:\Program Files and delete the Android folder. We have deleted all the Android Studio files now to delete any remains of SDK, go to %LOCALAPPDATA% and delete the Android folder. So we have completely uninstalled Android Studio from our system.
There's a setting when upgrading that asks if you want to use previous versions settings, if you chose "yes" and selected one of those folders, it may reset android studio (still not a big deal). If you chose "no" you shouldn't notice a single difference as long as you don't delete the folder its currently using.
Android Studio stores inside these folders the configuration files of the specified version. You can remove these folders, if you are not using them anymore. When you install a new version, Android Studio asks you if you want to import the previous settings. Show activity on this post. TL;DR: No. It will not cause any problems.
Hidden folders in your home directory should contain only application settings. If you remove one, you will simply revert AndroidStudio settings to default. In this case, you have a separate directory for two versions of AndroidStudio. If you remove .AndroidStudio1.3, you will simply reset settings in 1.3, leaving 1.4 unaffected.
You can safely delete it. The folder contains saved preferences and cache files, and would only be needed if you were still running the beta version for some reason. The only other reason to keep it hanging around is if you might want to migrate settings from the beta to the 1.0 version, but now that you're running 1.0 that's no longer necessary.
Deleting the folder will free up some disk space, so it's a good thing to do.
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