Generally speaking, the contents of your profile on your work-provided equipment and account belongs to the company. People having huge profiles might well be the reason for the syncing issues.

Speaking as someone with a similar level of paranoia when it comes to this, you're massively overestimating how interested other people will be in your files. I'd suggest simply asking your IT team/guy how they handle your computer/network shares/profile after you leave. That should probably set you at ease because the typical answer, especially within the EU, should be "we wipe everything".

It doesn't sync properly because it isn't set up correctly and the hardware is old... Our admin would know how to fix it but boss refuses to give him the time :)

If you're concerned about someone reading them and can't delete them, replace the file contents with nonsense. Alternatively insert subtle bugs into each of your scripts that cause them to harmlessly fail, so that if ever someone does try to run them, they'll assume they are buggy and quickly lose interest.

@Brandin I'd avoid giving that type of advice in a comment. These "personal" files are legally speaking probably still company-owned IP and sabotage is usually frowned upon.

@Lilienthal Hence the alternative; not sabotage, rather "accidentally" insert a plausible bug into your personal script.

If you wrote it at work to enhance your productivity it almost certainly belongs to your employer check your contract

'Ooh! He wants his profile wiped! What's he got there then...?'

I just can line up with that. Especially as artist it is very likely that you would be contracted with some sort of IP transfer. Those are usually worded in a way, that any invention you do in work time or any invention related to your work in your private time becomes property of the company. So its likely that "scripts, developed in work time to improve your productivity" are company property, hence making them unavailable for your company will likely be considered as sabotage.

Related reading: Wann muss das Unternehmen meine Daten löschen?

Do you have any private information in the files? If there's nothing you care about other people seeing, just leave them and move on.

You might ask whether the Anaconda suite causes problems since storage space is an issue. It might reveal something about account policies. They might tell that they don't usually delete anything or that the account gets deleted anyway. I'd probably leave it at that. If it gets deleted, it's not necessary to rush it and if it's not deleted then it's a waste of time to try to get them do something they wouldn't normally do.

Scripts written by you for you rarely get used since the important component.... You is missing. For people once removed from you the code needs really much polish. Dont worry about it.

Does you company keep a backup of your harddrive? If they do, you can't wipe that clean.

@Zaibis Except, if those producivity scripts weren't the deliverables that he was assigned to produce, then it's up to him to decide in what state they are considered to be properly working. You might think of this as him writing scripts to demonstrate how a bug works. Nice username, BTW.

@Worse_Username: Well he stated he lives in germany, and I can't tell without seeing his contract what his exact terms are, but I'm living and working in germany and have a contract that clearly states it the way I jsut described. -> No matter what, no matter when(as long the contract is active ofcourse). If I invent it and its related to my work defined in the contract or the invention involved usage of any knowledge or tools I wouldn't have without that job, the invention is property of the company PERIOD

At my previous jobs, I had pretty clear deliverables. That's all they cared about. I submitted those, and formatted (and zero'ed) out my work devices, myself. I'm not going to delegate my privacy to some guy in IT who has no obligation to fulfilling my request. Now if there are back ups that contain your personal files... you're already kinda screwed

@Worse_Username: For the username, I created that pseudonym 15 years ago when I was playing gta2 online. I don't speak any russian and I wasn't aware of it having a meaning. Since I play overwatch I get comments on that nick multiple times a day (mostly in russian what I don't even understand) I was allready thinking of changing it to stop people commenting on it. But I used that pseudonym everywhere for 15 years allready.... so... nah sigh

@Zaibis my point is, why can't his invention be the non-functioning scripts? It's not like you are obliged to back up the stuff you make every time you change it a bit, if it's not your deliverable?

@Worse_Username: "It's not like you are obliged to back up the stuff you make every time you change it a bit" wrong! Literaly taken I would be expected, as soon I invented something it is property of the company and I had even to ask for permission to continue working on it (Not that thats what they wanted, but its phrased that way; probably to just shut down any arguments of the way you put it). And as this is realy not that uncommon for germany and I think the type of result from IT is not that different from artists, I think doing that would be unlawful. How to proof it is another thing.

I'd delete all files I wouldn't want to leave behind. There may be copies but it is unlikely someone will go through them anyway. Do it, tell no one, and move on. If I am using a script to automate something the company already benefited from it because it makes X process less prone to errors and faster to get done. This doesn't mean I have to leave the script behind unless that is what I was paid to do.

Putting aside the question of whether you can get them to delete your scripts, why in the world would you want to? They might be something your replacement or your former coworkers would appreciate having! Not to mention that they might be useful if more work on the same projects needs to be done.