👨‍💻 MacOSCleaner 2.2.0 — in development

[AlexTkDev]

MacOSCleaner 2.2.0 is in development. This cycle is about leftovers after uninstall, safer cleanup of old project build folders, and a Disk Analyzer that you can actually navigate — targeting stable behavior on macOS 27.

Nothing below is shipping yet. Scope can still change.

🗂️ Leftovers after uninstall
The uninstaller already finds leftover files after an app is removed, but that list currently stays in logs. 2.2.0 will surface it in the Uninstaller UI: path, size, which app it belonged to, and per-item selection.

A separate leftovers review (orphaned files from apps that are already gone) is also planned. Review and explicit delete only — no automatic wipe from Cleanup. Heuristics can match live apps, so this stays opt-in.

🧱 Old project build artifacts (off by default)
Cleanup already knows how to find regenerable build folders (node_modules, target, .venv, .dart_tool, build, and similar) next to a real project file (package.json, Cargo.toml, etc.). Source code and .git are not touched.

In 2.2.0 this moves out of the Xcode category into its own Cleanup group, unchecked by default, and limited to artifacts that have not changed in 60–90 days. The current whole-home node_modules sweep in Large Files will go away.

📊 Disk Analyzer
Today it is a flat list of files over 1 MB. Planned:

• Drill into folders and see subdirectory sizes
• Report allocated size (what you actually get back on APFS, including clones)
• Quick Look with Space
• Skip iCloud placeholder files so a scan does not download cloud content

Existing Reveal in Finder and Move to Trash stay.

🕰️ Time Machine local snapshots
Cleanup can already delete local snapshots. 2.2.0 will thin them (tmutil thinlocalsnapshots) instead of wiping every snapshot at once, so local Time Machine history is not thrown away just to free space.

There is no supported “purge all APFS purgeable space” button. iCloud and system caches are left to macOS.

↩️ Put Back
Cleanup already journals operations, but it does not store original → Trash paths, so restore is not possible yet. Planned: Put Back from Trash to the original location, only if “empty Trash during cleanup” is off.

DNS cache flush already exists in Cleanup; the 2.2.0 work is to make the privileged run actually work.

🛠️ What 2.2.0 is aiming at
Fewer accidental deletes, honest disk numbers, leftovers you can see and pick, and UI that behaves on macOS 27. Not RAM “cleaners”, not Launch Services rebuilds, not a pile of one-click system scripts.

Feedback, false-positive reports, and “this leftover was missed” cases are useful now, while this is still being built.