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#Application cleaner mac mac#

You can also look into the history.txt file to see the previous locations of files/directories the program moved. In case you accidentally confirmed a file to be removed, it can still be recovered by going into your trash bin. This script only moves files into your trash bin. With this script, I only have to type in the general name of my application, and it will show me each file that roughly* matches the name before I confirm its move to the trash bin.

#Application cleaner mac mac#

I used to search through a ton of locations on my mac in order to find leftover files and delete them in order to make more room.

When I look at the storage left on my mac, a ton of space is taken up by "System", which holds many files, such as your saved iMessages, as well as left over files from deleted applications. Regardless, these files are useless if the application has been deleted. Most of the time, those files don't take up much space, however it's possible that these leftover files take up a significant amount of space. -p or -pretend: run program without actually moving files into the trashĪfter deleting applications, they often leave a bunch of files on your mac in various locations.The folder can be placed anywhere on your mac, just make sure the contents of the folder stay together.

Run in your terminal (Bash) chmod 755 clean (this allows you to read, write, and execute this script, while allowing others to read and execute only).

Clone this repository and navigate to the folder.

If your device uses macOS, this script should work in Bash, and may or may not work in other shells. Although all of the commands used in the script are either Bash shell built-in commands or from a Unix-like OS, the file paths that this program searches through are currently only specific to macOS machines.