When no artifacts are found during scanning, `menu_options` remains an
empty array. With `set -euo pipefail` active, expanding `${menu_options[@]}`
on an empty array causes a fatal "unbound variable" error (line 1325).
Add an early-return guard after the spinner stops: if no items were found,
print a friendly "No artifacts found to purge" message and exit cleanly.
Fixes#546
- Add global caching for `detect_architecture`, `get_darwin_major`, `get_optimal_parallel_jobs`, and `is_ansi_supported` to reduce subshell overhead.
- Improve robustness of `get_lsregister_path` by returning 1 on failure.
- Enhance security of `get_user_home` by replacing `eval echo` with `id -P`.
When Mole is called from GUI applications (e.g., SwiftUI apps), the
request_sudo_access() function would fail with '/dev/tty: Device not
configured' error because /dev/tty is not available in non-TTY contexts.
This commit adds automatic detection of the runtime environment and uses
macOS native password dialog (via osascript) when running in GUI mode,
while preserving all existing TTY behavior including Touch ID support.
Changes:
- Detect TTY availability before attempting terminal-based authentication
- Use osascript to display native password dialog in GUI mode
- Maintain backward compatibility with all terminal-based workflows
- Ensure secure password handling (unset after use)
Fixes commands like 'mole clean', 'mole optimize', 'mole purge' when
invoked from GUI applications.
- Use array slicing instead of manual loop for splitting dirs
- Remove redundant early returns with duplicated safe_clean calls
- Consolidate cache/logs cleanup to single location at function end
- Fix undefined ICON_SKIP, use ICON_SUCCESS instead
- Reduce code from 46 to 27 lines with early return pattern
- Consistent styling with other whitelist skip messages
- Add whitelist checking to clean_dev_go() function
- Check both GOCACHE and GOMODCACHE before cleaning
- Show appropriate messages for protected caches
- Fix whitelist pattern from ~/go/pkg/mod/cache/* to ~/go/pkg/mod/*
- Split Go cache into separate build and module entries
Fixes#521
- Add simctl availability check before attempting cleanup
- Capture and analyze error output for better diagnostics
- Implement fallback: manual deletion when simctl fails
- Provide specific error hints (permission, in-use, service issues)
- Skip early when no unavailable simulators exist
- Show partial success status when some deletions fail
Error scenarios now handled:
- simctl not available → skip with friendly message
- Permission denied → show hint and try manual deletion
- Device in use → show hint and try manual deletion
- CoreSimulator service issues → show hint
- Partial failures → show "partially cleaned X/Y"
Fixes#520
On macOS 15+, /usr/bin/pip3 exists as a stub that triggers Command Line
Tools installation dialog. The previous check only verified command
existence, causing false "pip cache · would clean" output for users
without actual pip3 installed.
Now verifies pip3 is functional by checking `pip3 --version` before
attempting cleanup.
Fixes#512
Remove unused functions from base.sh and ui.sh:
- base.sh: is_interactive, spinner stack management, get_terminal_info, validate_terminal_environment
- ui.sh: with_spinner
Net reduction: ~166 lines of dead code
- Switch bytes_to_human (shell) and humanizeBytes (Go) from Base-2
(1024) to Base-10 (1000) to match Apple's storage calculation
standard since Snow Leopard
- Add proper decimal rounding instead of truncation
- Use mdls kMDItemLogicalSize for .app bundles to avoid APFS clone
file undercounting by du
Fixes#511
Use a fast `defaults read` pre-check before spawning any tmutil
process. On machines without Time Machine configured the check
returns instantly, avoiding the spinner and the 2-3s tmutil timeout.
Affected locations:
- lib/clean/system.sh: clean_time_machine_failed_backups()
- lib/clean/system.sh: clean_local_snapshots()
- lib/clean/user.sh: local snapshot hint in system hints
Add support for cleaning old aerial wallpaper videos in:
/Users/user/Library/Application Support/com.apple.wallpaper/aerials/videos
These video files can consume significant disk space (up to 50GB+) and
are safe to remove - macOS will re-download them on demand.
Uses MOLE_SUPPORT_CACHE_AGE_DAYS (default 30 days) to avoid removing
recently used wallpapers.
Closes#508
This commit addresses the issue #506 where mole would exit prematurely
during application support scanning.
Changes:
1. Remove 4 redundant pipefail disable/restore blocks:
- safe_find_delete() in lib/core/file_ops.sh
- safe_sudo_find_delete() in lib/core/file_ops.sh
- fix_broken_preferences() in lib/optimize/maintenance.sh
- opt_saved_state_cleanup() in lib/optimize/tasks.sh
These were unnecessary because process substitution (< <(cmd)) is not
affected by pipefail - only real pipelines (cmd1 | cmd2) are.
2. Fix real bug in fix_broken_preferences():
- Add || true to ((broken_count++)) on lines 35 and 55
- This prevents set -e from exiting when broken_count starts at 0
Fixes#506
Replace hardcoded 70-char string with a dynamically generated divider
capped at terminal width (max 70) so the separator fits narrow terminals
instead of overflowing them.
