Mole

🦡 Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac.

Highlights

🦡 Deep System Cleanup - Remove hidden caches, logs, and temp files in one sweep
📦 Smart Uninstall - Complete app removal with all related files and folders
📊 Disk Space Analyzer - Visualize disk usage with lightning-fast mdfind + du hybrid scanning
⚡️ Fast Interactive UI - Arrow-key navigation with pagination for large lists
🧹 Massive Space Recovery - Reclaim 100GB+ of wasted disk space

Installation

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tw93/mole/main/install.sh | bash

Usage

mole               # Interactive main menu
mole clean         # Deep system cleanup
mole uninstall     # Interactive app uninstaller
mole analyze [path]# Analyze disk space (default: home directory)
mole --help        # Show help

Examples

Deep System Cleanup

$ mole clean

Starting user-level cleanup...

▶ System essentials
  ✓ User app cache (28 items) (45.2GB)
  ✓ User app logs (15 items) (2.1GB)
  ✓ Trash (12.3GB)

▶ Browser cleanup
  ✓ Chrome cache (8 items) (8.4GB)
  ✓ Safari cache (2.1GB)
  ✓ Arc cache (3.2GB)

▶ Extended developer caches
  ✓ Xcode derived data (9.1GB)
  ✓ Node.js cache (4 items) (14.2GB)
  ✓ VS Code cache (1.4GB)

▶ Applications
  ✓ JetBrains cache (3.8GB)
  ✓ Slack cache (2.2GB)
  ✓ Discord cache (1.8GB)

====================================================================
🎉 CLEANUP COMPLETE!
💾 Space freed: 95.50GB | Free space now: 223.5GB
📊 Files cleaned: 6420 | Categories processed: 6
====================================================================

Smart App Uninstaller

$ mole uninstall

Select Apps to Remove

▶ ☑ Adobe Creative Cloud      (12.4G) | Old
  ☐ WeChat                    (2.1G) | Recent
  ☐ Final Cut Pro             (3.8G) | Recent

🗑️  Uninstalling: Adobe Creative Cloud
  ✓ Removed application
  ✓ Cleaned 45 related files

====================================================================
🎉 UNINSTALLATION COMPLETE!
🗑️ Apps uninstalled: 1 | Space freed: 12.4GB
====================================================================

Disk Space Analyzer

# Quick start - explore your home directory
$ mole analyze

# View all disk volumes and major locations
$ mole analyze --all

💾 Disk Volumes & Locations

  TYPE  SIZE        LOCATION
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
▶ 💿  245.3GB     Macintosh HD (Root)
  🏠  89.2GB      ~
  📚  45.1GB      ~/Library
  📁  33.7GB      ~/Downloads
  📁  18.4GB      ~/Documents
  🔌  128.0GB     External Drive

# Explore specific directory with progress bar
$ mole analyze ~/Downloads

  📊 [████████████] 100% (25/25)  ← Real-time scanning progress

📊 Disk Space Explorer

  Current: ~/Downloads
  ↑/↓: Navigate | → / Enter: Open folder | ← / Backspace: Back | q: Quit

  Items (sorted by size):

  TYPE  SIZE        NAME
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ▶ 📁   33.72GB      materials       ← Use arrow keys to select
    📁   5.67GB       learning
    📁   4.50GB       projects
    🎬   1.68GB       recording.mov   ← Files can't be opened
    🎬   1.58GB       presentation.mov
    📦   1.20GB       OldInstaller.dmg
    📁   2.22GB       shared
    📁   1.78GB       recent
    ... and 12 more items

# Press Enter on "materials" folder to drill down:

📊 Disk Space Explorer

  Current: ~/Downloads/materials
  ↑/↓: Navigate | → / Enter: Open folder | ← / Backspace: Back | q: Quit

  Items (sorted by size):

  ▶ 📁   15.2GB       videos          ← Keep drilling down
    📁   10.1GB       documents
    📁   6.8GB        images
    🎬   2.5GB        demo.mov

Interactive Navigation:

Instant startup - no waiting for initial scan
Real-time progress - visual progress bar when scanning (10+ directories)
All volumes view - --all flag shows all disks and major locations
Files and folders mixed together, sorted by size (largest first)
Shows top 16 items per directory (largest items only)
Use ↑/↓ arrow keys to navigate (green arrow ▶ shows selection)
Press Enter on a 📁 folder to drill down into it
Press Backspace or ← to go back to parent directory
Press q to quit at any time
Color coding: Red folders >10GB, Yellow >1GB, Blue <1GB
Files (📦🎬📄🖼️📊) are shown but can't be opened (only folders)

Performance:

Fast scanning - real-time progress bar for large directories (10+ folders)
Smart caching - sizes are calculated once and cached during navigation
Top 16 only - shows largest items first, keeps interface clean and fast

What Mole Cleans

Category	Targets	Typical Recovery
System	App caches, logs, trash, crash reports	20-50GB
Browsers	Safari, Chrome, Edge, Arc, Firefox cache	5-15GB
Developer	npm, pip, Docker, Homebrew, Xcode	15-40GB
Apps	Slack, Discord, Teams, Notion cache	3-10GB

What Mole Uninstalls

Component	Files Removed	Examples
App Bundle	Main .app executable	`/Applications/App.app`
Support Data	App-specific user data	`~/Library/Application Support/AppName`
Cache Files	Temporary & cache data	`~/Library/Caches/com.company.app`
Preferences	Settings & config files	`~/Library/Preferences/com.app.plist`
Logs & Reports	Crash reports & logs	`~/Library/Logs/AppName`
Containers	Sandboxed app data	`~/Library/Containers/com.app.id`

Support

If Mole helps you recover disk space, star this repository and share with fellow Mac users. Report issues via GitHub Issues.

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License

MIT License - feel free to enjoy and participate in open source.

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