V1.50.0 Honest 🪞

Mole

Deep clean and optimize your Mac.

Changelog

1. mo clean leaves open apps alone: an app's cache is skipped while that app is still running or still writing to it, so cleaning never touches data something is using.
2. mo clean no longer stops halfway: a folder too big to measure or delete in time is skipped on its own, the rest of the cleanup still runs, and the summary tells you the freed number came out low.
3. App leftovers finishes quickly: it used to sit on a scan that could take a minute and then report a row of failures, on a machine where it had never actually been able to remove anything.
4. mo uninstall picks the right app more often: names like Tor Browser are matched as one app instead of two words, so an unrelated app is no longer caught by a single word.
5. mo uninstall finishes on busy machines: with a lot of software installed the scan used to run out of time and report that nothing was removed; now it removes the app and leaves the leftovers.
6. Developer caches are cleaned more thoroughly: several pnpm versions at once, Rust directories moved somewhere custom, Codex update files, and Gradle are all covered now.
7. mo status shows purgeable space: this is the space Finder already counts as free, and the reason Finder and df never agree on how much you have left.
8. mo optimize says what it skipped: databases too large to compact are listed by name and size, instead of being counted as already optimized.
9. Updating asks for your password once: no second prompt halfway through the install.

更新日志

1. mo clean 不动正在使用的应用：应用还开着或还在写入时，它的缓存会被跳过，清理不会碰到正被使用的数据。
2. mo clean 不会清到一半就停：某个目录太大、来不及测也来不及删，就单独跳过它，后面的清理照常进行，摘要里也会告诉你这次释放的数字偏小。
3. App leftovers 很快就能跑完：过去这一步可能卡上一分钟，然后报一串失败，而它在这台机器上其实从来就删不掉任何东西。
4. mo uninstall 更少认错应用：Tor Browser 这类名字按一个应用匹配，不再拆成两个词，避免某个词命中了别的应用。
5. mo uninstall 在软件多的机器上也能跑完：以前扫描会超时，然后报告什么都没删；现在会把应用删掉，只留下残留文件。
6. 开发者缓存清得更干净：同时装了多个 pnpm 版本、Rust 目录被挪到别处、Codex 的更新文件和 Gradle，现在都覆盖到了。
7. mo status 显示可清除空间：这部分空间 Finder 已经算作可用，也是 Finder 和 df 永远对不上的原因。
8. mo optimize 会说明跳过了什么：太大压不动的数据库会按名字和大小列出来，不再算作已优化。
9. 更新只问一次密码：不会装到一半再弹一次。

Thanks

Issue reporters and PR contributors this cycle: @Yuxin-Qiao · @TyceHerrman · @Rrrripp · @quangdog · @toyo2333 · @missaq · @tashicorp · @AnyGong · @dmt0 · @int3g · @david-dacs.

Mole Mac App

Mole Mac is the same work in a window: cleaning, uninstall leftovers, a treemap view of the disk, and live system readings in the menu bar. It shows you every file before it deletes anything. The CLI stays free and open source.

想要图形界面可以看看 Mole Mac，清理、卸载残留、磁盘树状图和菜单栏实时监控都在里面，删任何东西之前都会先让你看到具体是哪些文件。命令行版本继续免费开源。