⌘1part of dipswitch, an app for your mac
DISK
the disk is full again. see where it went.
DISK is the tool in the app that reads the whole drive, draws it at size, and says what each thing is. it removes nothing until you say so.
a full disk, start to finish
mid-export, the mac runs out of room.
watch it once, then try it yourself. the drive is a sample: this page reads nothing on your mac.
- safeapps and tools make these again when they need them.
- reviewprobably not needed. check, then decide.
- carefulhard to replace. be sure before removing.
where DISK has no rule for a thing, it says so and leaves the call to you.
explore · key 2
the big ones have nowhere to hide.
one block per folder. more space, bigger block. the pictures you knew about. the thirty-eight gigabytes of build leftovers you did not.
this is the map as the app draws it. pick a block: the line under it says what it is.
left alone
what it leaves alone, and why.
a cleaner that promises to free everything is guessing. DISK measures these, says why they stay, and stops.
- photos library
- 118 gb
- your photos. never offered for cleaning. Photos › Settings › iCloud › Optimize Mac Storage keeps fewer here.
- messages
- 9.80 gb
- deleting files breaks chats. Messages › Settings › Keep messages.
- 4.10 gb
- Mail manages it. only Mail downloads are offered.
- your home’s own folders
- never whole
- documents, movies, pictures and the rest. open one and choose what is inside.
- the system, keychains, privacy permissions
- never
- whatever you pick. DISK never asks for your password.
- copies that share storage
- frees 0
- APFS clones and hard links: moving one to the trash frees nothing, and DISK says so.
caches of running apps are skipped.
review · key 8
nothing goes until you say so.
what you pick waits on a list. REVIEW shows every item, its rating, and what the drive gets back. the default is the trash, and the space returns when the trash is emptied. deleting for good is one switch away, and says it cannot be undone.
- already in the trash
- emptied for good, in either mode
- network shares
- no trash there. deleted for good, after you type each name
- kept
- a log of every removal, on this mac
free
- scan any folder or drive
- the map, four ways
- every rating and its reason
- CHECK, which adds up what is safe
- building the delete list
PRO
- moving to the trash
- deleting for good
- emptying the trash
so free DISK frees no space by itself. it shows where the space went and opens the place in Finder. the rest is yours to do.
the small print, at full size
- free space
- the figure Finder shows, purgeable space included
- folder sizes
- the room they take on disk. Finder’s own figure can differ
- system data
- explained part by part. the parts will not add up to Apple’s figure
- full disk access
- optional. without it macOS hides Mail, Messages, Safari and some apps’ data