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I started working on ByteSweep because I wanted a better answer to a simple question: Where is all the storage on my Mac actually going? Then I kept adding things I personally wanted on my Mac, and 2.0 kind of got out of hand 😅 At this point, I don't really think of ByteSweep as a “cleaner” anymore. It's becoming more like a control center for your Mac . Here’s what I've built into it so far: Sleep — See why your Mac woke up, including those annoying wakes that happen while the screen is off. It keeps the history so you can see what happened overnight. Storage — Explore your disk using Treemap, Sunburst, Flame Graph, Bubbles, Mind Map, Top Sizes and Age Map. Basically, different ways of answering “where did my storage go?” Notch — A quick way to see what's happening without opening the app. It can surface things like: 3 wakes last night · Docker holding sleep · +18 GB this week History — See what changed instead of only looking at the current state. Startup — Find things that launch automatically, including agents pointing to apps that no longer exist. Privacy — See what has access to your Mac through macOS permissions. Developer — Find developer caches and other stuff that quietly builds up while you're coding. ShareSafe — Check what you're about to share before accidentally exposing something you didn't mean to. Fix — Looks at the things ByteSweep finds and helps identify what actually needs attention. Ask ByteSweep — Ask questions about what's happening on your Mac. It's a local query engine, not a cloud chatbot. For example: Why did my Mac wake up at 3am? What changed this week? Updates — Check applications for updates through sources like Sparkle, Homebrew, the Mac App Store and GitHub. Clean — Find things that can be cleaned using a risk-based cleanup system, with a 7-day undo window. Duplicates — Find duplicate files, similar photos/videos and duplicate folders. Apps — See what applications are leaving behind. Tools — A collection of smaller Mac utilities for things that can be safely cleared or managed. Monitor — CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU, battery, thermal information, processes and per-app network activity. But the interesting part is that it can also watch for sustained unusual behavior . For example, if an app keeps consuming a lot of CPU, keeps growing in memory, writes a large amount of data or transfers a lot of data over the network, ByteSweep can flag it. So you don't have to sit there watching Activity Monitor all day. Dev Servers — Find running Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go and other development servers, including idle ones. Drives — Catalog external drives, search them, organize them and export the catalog as JSON or CSV. Recovery — Scan for recoverable deleted files and partitions, including photos, videos, documents, archives and audio. The other thing I'm trying to keep very deliberate is privacy. ByteSweep is designed to be local. No ByteSweep server, no account and no

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/27 03:18:03