dbt clean does not clean target folder

Help
1

I am using dbt core on the mac, and when I run dbt clean, it is not cleaning up the target folder, even tho my dbt_project.yml has listed the target folder under clean-targets, same with the dbt_packages folder.

➜  dbt_projects dbt clean
22:32:18  Running with dbt=1.5.1
22:32:18  Checking target/*
22:32:18  Cleaned target/*
22:32:18  Checking dbt_packages/*
22:32:18  Cleaned dbt_packages/*
22:32:18  Finished cleaning all paths.
➜  dbt_projects ls models/target/compiled/dbt_projects/models
covid_agg.sql example
➜  dbt_projects grep -A3 'clean-targets' dbt_project.yml 
clean-targets:         # directories to be removed by `dbt clean`
  - target
  - dbt_packages
2

Your ls is checking under models/target where cleaning is targeting target/*

Note: @Josh Devlin (he) originally posted this reply in Slack. It might not have transferred perfectly.

3

What is the value of your target-path? https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/project-configs/target-path

Note: @Josh Devlin (he) originally posted this reply in Slack. It might not have transferred perfectly.

4

I understand. The default dbt_project.yml is created under project directory (as per docs), and it defaults to clean-targets. I suppose if everything is done relative to the project home directory including setting the target paths it works fine. So so good for now. Thanks