Anyone want to use a macOS app to help manage `/Developer` storage use? System Preferences (Storage) doesn’t report accurate values, and there’s just a bit of opaqueness in what’s happening in those folders #xcode #iosdev #swift #macos #mac

@sideshow_boz Doesn’t apps like “DevCleaner”, or the open source XcodeCleaner (on GitHub) and similar projects do this already?

Or are you thinking of something different to what I’m thinking about?

Just wondering because I’m always interested in new tools but just wondering if your approach does something differently than the existing solutions 🙂

@sideshow_boz Apologies, I checked the thread in my Mastodon client and it didn’t show any info and so I asked about the focus … Then went to the original thread and discovered that you’d already covered that question 😛

I’d certainly be interested in something which provides a bit more detail, especially if the stats provided by DevCleaner are wrong ...

Now I guess I’ll have to do some comparisons myself and see what happens 🙂

@f No worries! Ah, I didn’t mean to say DevCleaner is wrong (very useful tool), it just doesn’t report the entire picture (specifically, it only looks in the `/Xcode` subdirectory.) =)

@sideshow_boz Understood 🙂 I did some checking comparing both DevCleaner and XcodeCleaner (https://github.com/waylybaye/XcodeCleaner-SwiftUI) and XcodeCleaner does provide more detailed info … though it might not be apparent at first.

It gives a breakdown in the sidebar and if you click on each sidebar item, you get more detailed info. Perhaps that’s similar to what you were looking for?

@f Yea, pretty much! There are a few things I’d like to improve on (e.g. XcodeCleaner loses all its data when you quit the app), and also a few things I’d like to make less opaque (especially Simulator devices), and maybe even add a Tips/Tricks section when it comes to managing Xcode 🥲

@sideshow_boz I’m definitely interested in something like that 🙂 So will keep an eye out on your posts ...

I do (or try to do) a personal project every weekend to fulfil my own personal needs and I had an improved XcodeCleaner in the “someday” list … but didn’t have concrete things to accomplish.

But you have a clear roadmap, so will probably just wait for your app 🙂 Put me down for beta testing if you need testers …