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Mole is ok too

TUI version is free, though there is a paid app if that’s your thing

Yeah mole is brilliant, I just discovered it days after paying for Daisydisk and haven't used Daisydisk since. Mole freed up 80GB on my laptop the first time I ran it.

To be fair these are different tools.

Back in the days you would use cleanmymac for emptiying caches and what have you, and daisydisk to find big folders

Mole author here, thanks for the kind words. Happy to hear what else it should clean up.

DaisyDisk is great. Mole also found and deleted a bunch of stuff on my mac from Claude, Gemini, etc.

https://github.com/tw93/Mole

DaisyDisk is such a nice app. I just checked and I purchased it over 11 years ago.

They still update it, it works perfectly, no version 2.0 forced obsolescence. Just a nice, reliable tool.

+1 for DaisyDisk

I’ve been using it altogether too much this last month and just bought a 4TB USB4 SSD.

And yes, codex is eating my disk, too. Ironically my solution is mostly codex - I have a task which goes around stomping on detritus.

QDirStat is free and does the job really good

https://github.com/jesusha123/qdirstat-macos