Findings

After a scan OpenDisk runs its rules and lists what they matched, grouped by category and sorted by size.

Each finding shows:

• What it is and why it can go, in plain words, including what happens next time you need it.
• A safety badge:
  • Regenerable a cache the tool rebuilds on its own;
  • Review rebuildable but costly to get back (large model downloads, build archives);
  • Personal your own data, such as device backups.
• The official tool OpenDisk will use instead of deleting files, when there is one (brew cleanup, xcrun simctl delete unavailable, docker system prune…).
• The apps that must be closed before cleaning it.

Click a finding to see every matched folder or file, its size, and Show in Finder.

Selecting

Tick a whole finding or single items. The bar at the bottom shows how much you selected and opens the preview.

Why something is not listed

• No rule covers it. OpenDisk only offers what a rule explains; use the disk map to find everything else, and suggest a rule.
• It is empty. Empty matches are hidden.
• A more specific rule already claimed it. For example ~/.cache/huggingface/hub belongs to the Hugging Face rule, not to the generic ~/.cache rule.
• It is a symlink, or lives under a protected folder (see Safety model).