diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82839abe8e..47952f9bce 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ jupyter_execute
 # this dir contains the whole website and should not be checked in on main
 builtdocs/
 .doit.db
-
+lite/files/*/
 .jupyterlite.doit.db
 
 # jetbrains settings
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 3a6e21dd31..2c6c08faea 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: clean-notebook
         args: [-i, tags]
-        exclude: '^lite/files'
+        exclude: '^lite/files/.*/'
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
     rev: v2.2.6
     hooks:
diff --git a/lite/files/Getting_Started.ipynb b/lite/files/Getting_Started.ipynb
index 2e6e563e1f..e4a8947ba4 100644
--- a/lite/files/Getting_Started.ipynb
+++ b/lite/files/Getting_Started.ipynb
@@ -126,11 +126,6 @@
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python (Pyodide)",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python"
-  },
   "language_info": {
    "name": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3"
diff --git a/lite/files/Reset_Jupyterlite.ipynb b/lite/files/Reset_Jupyterlite.ipynb
index 3e7c4a66cf..1a0444a265 100644
--- a/lite/files/Reset_Jupyterlite.ipynb
+++ b/lite/files/Reset_Jupyterlite.ipynb
@@ -11,51 +11,7 @@
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
    "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [
-    {
-     "data": {
-      "text/html": [
-       "\n",
-       "<button type=\"button\" id=\"button_for_indexeddb\">Clear JupyterLite local storage</button>\n",
-       "<div id=\"clear-storage-message\"></div>\n",
-       "<script>\n",
-       "window.button_for_indexeddb.onclick = function(e) {\n",
-       "    message = document.getElementById(\"clear-storage-message\")\n",
-       "    message.innerText=\"Running\"\n",
-       "    window.indexedDB.open('JupyterLite Storage').onsuccess = function(e) {\n",
-       "        // There are also other tables that I'm not clearing:\n",
-       "        // \"counters\", \"settings\", \"local-storage-detect-blob-support\"\n",
-       "        let tables = [\"checkpoints\", \"files\"];\n",
-       "\n",
-       "        let db = e.target.result;\n",
-       "        let t = db.transaction(tables, \"readwrite\");\n",
-       "\n",
-       "        function clearTable(tablename) {\n",
-       "            let st = t.objectStore(tablename);\n",
-       "            st.count().onsuccess = function(e) {\n",
-       "                console.log(\"Deleting \" + e.target.result + \" entries from \" + tablename + \"...\");\n",
-       "                st.clear().onsuccess = function(e) {\n",
-       "                    console.log(tablename + \" is cleared!\");\n",
-       "                }\n",
-       "            }\n",
-       "        }\n",
-       "\n",
-       "        for (let tablename of tables) {\n",
-       "            clearTable(tablename);\n",
-       "        }\n",
-       "    }\n",
-       "    message.innerText=\"JupyterLite local storage has successfully been reset\"\n",
-       "};\n",
-       "</script>\n"
-      ],
-      "text/plain": [
-       "<IPython.core.display.HTML object>"
-      ]
-     },
-     "metadata": {},
-     "output_type": "display_data"
-    }
-   ],
+   "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "from IPython.display import display, HTML\n",
     "display(HTML(\"\"\"\n",
@@ -95,24 +51,10 @@
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": ".venv",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
   "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
    "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.10.13"
-  },
-  "orig_nbformat": 4
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3"
+  }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
  "nbformat_minor": 2