0.2.0 - 2026-11-01

Release Notes

Added

• Search with /. It reads the scan in memory and runs while you type. Words can be a name, a pattern like *.log, a path like cache/, size>1G, type:dir and -word. Ready-made searches find build folders that grow large: @node, @rust, @gradle, @python, @xcode, @cache and @dev. Each result shows its path below the open folder. You can select results and delete them with d or D.
• macOS: when minimenta cannot use the cache, the progress screen gives the reason on a second line under the message. Examples are a last full scan older than 7 days, a replay that did not finish in its time limit, and more than 20,000 changes. For too many changes, the line shows the number of changes, the number of different folders among them, and the limit.
• The footer shows the free space of the disk that holds the open folder, for example 182.3 GiB free 1/2. It stays while a message or the delete progress shows. On a narrow line it drops first, so the percent and the time left stay. minimenta reads it at start, after a delete or a rescan, when the open folder changes, and every 2 s while deletes run. After D, the message adds the space it freed, for example Deleted 1 item. Freed 12.4 GiB. After d it does not, because the Trash keeps the files until you empty it.

Changed

• A delete (d or D) runs in the background. The rows leave the list at once, so you can keep browsing and queue more deletes. q waits for the running deletes, and q again quits at once. Esc stays as it was. r and u wait until the deletes end. A quick repeat of the same delete key is ignored when the question is off.
• D deletes folders with 8 threads. It is about 2.5x faster on Linux, 1.5x on Windows and gains little on macOS. It never follows links or junctions, and on macOS and Linux it does not enter a folder on another device.
• While a delete runs, the footer shows its progress. For D it shows the items removed, the percent and the time left, for example Deleting big: 21% done, about 40 s left (21,340 of 100,000 items). 2 more queued (45,000 items). For d it shows how long the move to the Trash has run. The time left shows after about a second. When the count stops for 3 s, the footer says waiting for the disk. The text changes while you wait, with no key press.

Install minimenta 0.2.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/OriginalMHV/minimenta/releases/download/v0.2.0/minimenta-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/OriginalMHV/minimenta/releases/download/v0.2.0/minimenta-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install OriginalMHV/tap/minimenta

Download minimenta 0.2.0

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minimenta-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
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minimenta-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
minimenta-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
minimenta-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum