DevSweep
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Getting started

Install DevSweep, run your first scan and clean safely, in about five minutes.

Install

  1. Download DevSweep and open the .dmg.
  2. Drag DevSweep into Applications.
  3. Open it from Applications. The first time, macOS says it can’t be opened because the app isn’t notarized. Click Done, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the DevSweep message and click Open Anyway.

You only do the last step once. The troubleshooting page has a Terminal alternative.

Your first scan

DevSweep starts scanning as soon as it opens. The sidebar fills in place by place, and the Overview shows:

  • the total selected to clean, in large type
  • a bar with one colour per place; the solid part is what’s selected, the faded part is found but not selected
  • your disk, and roughly how much free space you’ll have after cleaning

A full scan takes about a minute, mostly spent measuring large folders such as ~/.gradle.

Review

Open a place from the sidebar or the Overview. Each row shows what the item is, its safety label, when you last used it and its size.

  • Safe items are already ticked.
  • Check first and Your files items wait for you.
  • Right-click a row to reveal it in Finder or copy its path.

Projects you used in the last 30 days are never preselected, so the node_modules you’re working in stays put.

Clean

Press Clean in the toolbar. A summary lists what will go, grouped by place, plus any command DevSweep will run (for simulator runtimes or Docker). Confirm, and files move to the Trash.

The space comes back when you empty the Trash. Until then, you can put anything back from Finder.

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