Mole V1.7.3
Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac.
Changelog
- Touch ID support – Added request_sudo_access with Touch ID fallback and cleaner privileged action flow.
- Better cleaning – Improved whitelist handling, progress display, and cache/orphan detection.
- Whitelist: Supports filtering many common cleaning methods, go to mo clean --whitelist to try it
- Loading & links – Unified spinner style, improved parallel jobs, and cleaned up analyze temp files and link hints.
- Visual inspection – Refreshed analyze view with badge icons, faster mdfind loops, and clearer headers for large media.
- Dry-run safety – Ensured nothing is deleted in --dry-run mode and validated whitelist entries first.
- Uninstall protection – Added strict path checks and manual confirmation to prevent system deletions.
- Locale fixes – Forced neutral LC_ALL/LANG, replaced spinners with ASCII, and muted debug noise.
- Container safety – Stopped auto-removal of “orphaned” containers by default.
- Removed a lot of emojis. I don’t like emojis very much now.
Learn how to use it through this main document. If you think mole is useful to you, welcome to Star