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@Ayushjo Ayushjo released this 23 Oct 05:18
v0.4.0
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The new design comes to Windows, and "Where's the rest?" on both

Windows

The Windows app now has the same design and pages as the Mac app.

  • Overview shows your free space, what's using the drive by category, and what's ready to free.
  • Clean up ticks only what rebuilds by itself and shows a receipt before anything moves. Caches, Old downloads and Large media have their own pages.
  • Explore shows every folder as a map, rings or a list, plus biggest files, biggest folders, forgotten files and Find.
  • Developer shows where build output, dependencies and tool caches live, by project and by tool, with a WSL & SDKs tab.
  • Duplicates, What changed, Applications (each program's leftovers, never the program itself) and History & Put Back.
  • There is also Ctrl+K to find anything, a basket window with a receipt, the new Settings, and a notification-area status panel.

"Where's the rest?" (Mac and Windows)

The gap between what a scan finds and what the disk says is in use is now explained as parts that add up.

  • On the Mac: APFS volumes, local snapshots, and "What macOS keeps". You can delete Time Machine local snapshots there after you confirm.
  • On Windows: the page, hibernation and swap files, the Recycle Bin, and "What Windows keeps" (Windows.old, update downloads, Recall, WinSxS and more), with a link to the right Settings page for each.

Mac fixes

  • Developer › Xcode lists device support files, simulators and previews.
  • Scans stop at other volumes' mount points, and "/" scans no longer count firmlinked folders twice.
  • Cloud-only iCloud files count 0 bytes on disk again.
  • App leftovers no longer claim a sibling app's data, and single-file leftovers show their real size.
  • Aerial videos and the wallpaper cache are never staged.

Safety is unchanged: everything goes to the Trash or Recycle Bin first, nothing is deleted directly, and nothing leaves your computer.

Downloads

  • macOS 14+ (Apple silicon and Intel): freedisk.space.dmg
  • Windows 10/11 x64: freedisk.space-0.4.0-windows-x64.exe will be added to this page shortly. It's being built now. It's a single file, and .NET doesn't need to be installed.

The Mac app is ad-hoc signed, not notarized yet. The first time you open it, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. The Windows file is unsigned, so SmartScreen may ask you to choose More info › Run anyway.

Checksums (SHA-256)

  • freedisk.space.dmg: 8f41711232baf739e47383e8e8c16ee1655a412779ee874ccdf7faa028c516ed
  • freedisk.space-0.4.0-windows-x64.exe: added with the file
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