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A 20$ 1 year licence for something that probably has a FOSS equivalent on Linux... However, considering Apple will never ever ever allow user replaceable storage on a laptop, this might be worth it.
A 20$ 1 year licence for something that probably has a FOSS equivalent on Linux... However, considering Apple will never ever ever allow user replaceable storage on a laptop, this might be worth it.
In my experience, Macs use up a ridiculous amount of "System" storage for no reason that users can't delete. I've grown tired of family members asking me to help them free up storage that I can't even find. That's the major issue from what I've seen; unless this app prevents apple deliberately eating up 50%+ of the storage space of a machine, this doesn't do much for the people I know.
My main motivation was for the packages of Python virtual envs, where I often have similar packages installed, and even if versions are different, many files would still match. Some of the packages are quite huge, e.g. Numpy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc. I got quite some disk space savings from this.
https://github.com/albertz/system-tools/blob/master/bin/merg...
Am I missing something, or isn't it a "file de-duplicator" with a nice UI/UX? Sounds pretty simple to describe, and tells you why it's useful with just two words.
> There is no way for Hyperspace to cooperate with all other applications and macOS itself to coordinate a “safe” time for those files to be replaced, nor is there a way for Hyperspace for forcibly take exclusive control of those files. This got me wondering why the filesystem itself doesn't run a similar kind of deduplication process in the background. Presumably, it is at a level of abstraction where it could safel…
I think that ZFS actually does this. https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/
As a web dev, it’s been fun listening to Accidental Tech Podcast where Siracusa has been talking (or ranting) about the ins and outs of developing modern mac apps in Swift and SwiftUI.
The part where he said making a large table in HTML and rendering it with a web view was orders of magnitude faster than using the SwiftUI native platform controls made me bash my head against my desk a couple times. What are we doing here, Apple.
That being said, it's not quite an apples to apples comparison, because SwiftUI or UIKit can work with basically an infinite number of rows, whereas HTML will eventually get to a point where it won't load.
will produce a script which, if run, will hardlink duplicates
I gave it a try on my massive folder of NodeJS projects but it only found 1GB of savings on a 8.1GB folder. I then tried again including my user home folder (731K files, 127K folders, 2755 eligible files) to hopefully catch more savings and I only ended up at 1.3GB of savings (300MB more than just what was in the NodeJS folders.) I tried to scan System and Library but it refused to do so because of permission issues.…
pnpm tries to be a drop-in replacement for npm, and dedupes automatically.
True
> and dedupes automatically
Also true.
But the way you put them after each other, makes it sound like npm does de-duplication, and since pnpm tries to be a drop-in replacement for npm, so does pnpm.
So for clarification: npm doesn't do de-duplication across all your projects, and that in particular was of the more useful features that pnpm brought to the ecosystem when it first arrived.
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