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I highly recommend the free app DevCleaner - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devcleaner-for-xcode/id1388020431?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devcleaner-for-
by christoph 4y ago
I highly recommend the free app DevCleaner - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devcleaner-for-xcode/id1388020431?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devcleaner-for-xcode/id1388020...
I use it almost weekly to clear out the tens of gigabytes of garbage Xcode regularly generates.
- metadat 4y agoShould not be necessary. It's just wrong to have a whole app dedicated to cleaning up after Apple's Lazy Ass.
- saagarjha 4y agoApple has added a thing in Ventura (?) to list and let you remove these files.
- sys_64738 4y agoIt was in Monterey too and maybe earlier.
- sprkwd 4y agoDoes it have a name?
- vladvasiliu 4y agoI don't know the name, but IIRC it's something like "disk usage". It resembles roughly the "storage" panel on iOS.
- _rs 4y agoOn macOS 12 it's part of the System Information app at least and called "Storage Management"
- vladvasiliu 4y agoI'm pretty sure it was there before, my 2013 mbp is too old to run the latest version, and I've seen it there, too.
- tempodox 4y agoApple Menu > About This Mac > Storage > (Volume Name) > [Manage...]
- sys_64738 4y agoThere is a tool in the MacOS that will find large sized apps and allow you to delete them.
- happymellon 4y agoBut we already know what the large tool is, and it can be a dependency for other languages when using natively compiled libraries.
- zaphirplane 4y agoWhat is the tool ?
- astrange 4y agoIt isn't necessary, caches are deleted automatically. You just don't have low enough disk space to need it deleted. (This doesn't necessarily apply to apps who don't put things in Caches folders…)
- capableweb 4y agoExcept Xcode can't possibly know before hand when I do need the space back. Let's say I have 10GB free, so Xcode says "Well, you just don't have low enough disk space to need it deleted" while I'm trying to install Premiere Pro that requires 30GB of space (just an example), but I can't, because I don't have enough disk space. How about not trying to guess when the user needs the space?
- MereInterest 4y agoThis is the same problem I have with the "unused RAM is wasted RAM" argument. So long as a system has a maximum of one application using this strategy, it works. As soon as you have two independent programs each of which try to cache as much as possible, it falls apart. For a while, the browser could reasonably assume that it was the only application that used this strategy, and it was a true assumption. Now that native executables are being replaced by web-based applications, every program is trying to maximize its RAM usage, with predictable results.
- astrange 4y agoIt works fine if they tell the VM that its cache regions are purgeable, so they just go away under pressure instead of getting swapped out. Of course getting swapped out is usually fine too. Huge memory usage is more likely because they don’t know how to check for memory leaks, not because they’re trying to use it.
- astrange 4y agoHow’s the “I can’t” work? If the installer is telling you it can’t that just means it’s checking for free disk space the wrong way.
- hugi 4y agoHoly crap. Thank you for that pointer and my 92GBs of newly free space.