please support Python 3.12.
Thanks!

Question
Just run the script for the first time and it requires access to Calendar and Reminders. Why?

Also, the dry run get's stuck:

Describe The Bug

Expected Behaviour: If run mac-cleanup a second time, I should see Removed - 0 MB
Observed Behaviour: Non-zero return after consecutive runs

Version

3.0.4

How To Reproduce

Run mac-cleanup consecutively.

Describe The Bug

I basically forgot to update options in README.
Maybe I should add CI for that later 🐸

mac-cleanup -h
usage: mac-cleanup [-h] [-n] [-u] [-c] [-p] [-f]

    Python cleanup script for macOS
    Version: 3.0.4
    https://github.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-py

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -n, --dry-run      Run without deleting stuff
  -u, --update       Update Homebrew on cleanup
  -c, --configure    Open module configuration screen
  -p, --custom-path  Specify path for custom modules
  -f, --force        Accept all warnings

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• In v3.0.0 warning were added, but it's annoying to accept all of them every time.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Add new flag to force accept all warnings. Like -f and --force

Additional context

• I'll do it in a bit. If someone will get ahead of me - you're welcome, but write a comment here so we wouldn't do the same stuff twice 🐸

A copy of an issue from mac-cleanup-sh from @jeffmurch

Will be fixed in v3.0.0

When trying to run the program it stuck at Clearing System Cache Files 0%.
`
$ python3 -m platform

macOS-12.3.1-arm64-arm-64bit

$ mac-cleanup

Clearing System Cache Files... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0% -:--:--`

There are no debug keys so cant diagnose what can be wrong.

Describe the bug

Rerunning mac-cleanup causes being stuck on Cleaning up Homebrew Cache

How to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Execute pip3 install mac-cleanup
2. Run mac-cleanup - ok
3. Run again mac-cleanup
4. Stuck on Cleaning up Homebrew Cache

Screenshots

Describe the bug
FileNotFoundError if there are symlinks inside a dir

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• Sometimes telegram keeps old cache and it can't be cleaned from the app. Plus it would be convenient to be able to clean it from the cleaner itself.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Add new default module for Telegram
• From my old info it being stored in ~/Library/Group Containers/11111111111.ru.keepcoder.Telegram/stable/account-11111111111/postbox/db where 11111111111 - some unique id

Basically, task for myself. Don't want to forget about it 🐸

There is a problem with config file. On every update or reinstall it'll be deleted. That's not convenient and counter intuitive, imho.

Hi, I've just installed mac-cleanup-py and configured it to delete just my user-specific caches (~/.android/cache and similar). Even so, the script asks me for password via sudo. From a quick look at the code it seems it automatically uses sudo for every command? https://github.com/mac-cleanup/mac-cleanup-py/blob/main/mac_cleanup/core_modules.py#L64

That seems unfortunate, as it's a good general principle to not escalate privileges unless it's absolutely necessary. And sudo should not be necessary for just deleting files in my own home folder...?

Describe The Bug

The cleanup code in the custom module is not executed

Version

• mac-cleanup 3.0.4
• Python 3.11.7
• macOS 13.6.3

How To Reproduce

1. Create a python file and define a cleanup function that should delete a test file
2. Run mac-cleanup --custom and specify the directory path of the custom module
3. Run mac-cleanup -n or mac-cleanup.
4. Check if the test file has been deleted

Minimum example code to reproduce it (based on module_template.py)

"""Custom module template example."""
from mac_cleanup import *

# Do not import any functions at the top level

print("running example") # is printed 

# Get an instance of Collector
clc = Collector()

# You can create lots of modules in one file
def module_example_2():
    print("running example cleanup")
    with clc as unit:
        unit.message("test file")
        unit.add(Path("~/dotfiles/mac-cleanup-module/test").with_prompt("Delete test file?"))

Expected Behavior

Based on example above, directory and files are not deleted and prompt is not shown.

The statement print("running example") is executed, however this print("running example cleanup") statement is never executed

Example and context

Here

First off, thanks for you work on this!

Just an idea but I feel like there could be a better configuration message than [?] Active modules:. To someone new it's not incredibly intuitive what this is referring to (I personally thought this was referring to modules I DON'T want to touch).

Maybe something alone the lines of Select the modules you want to clean:?

You could add subtext Warning: Clearing cache files may result in temporary performance changes in some applications. to educate users what this is doing since it's obviously always a little scary to have something deleting files on your computer.

Just some thoughts, I'd be glad to open a PR if you see this as helpful.

Is your feature request related to a problem?

When running the dry-run, I noticed it got an output of ~10GB(forgot to screenshot) and after running, it reported cleaning 99GB.

Additional Context

What I noticed is that the only difference on the runs is that the actual run asked for my password, so I got investigating the code a bit and this bit of code seems to be the "problem"/masking the difference:

                except (PermissionError, FileNotFoundError):
                    continue

What do you think of adding a option to force it to get all the permissions for dry-run too?

Also great work on this project! Simple and effective ❤️

Question

The dry run returns the following result: "Approx 26.11 GB will be cleaned." After confirming the continuation of the procedure and saying 'yes' to each questions along it, Mac-Cleanup reports about 700 Mb having been deleted. But after re-running the script, it returns the same result: "Approx 26.11 GB will be cleaned." What am I doing wrong?

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Additional context
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Describe the bug
it wasn't supposed to remove docker images as the bash script never removed my containers if necessary should be asked using a prompt or something.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Just run it with sudo permissions on mac and it will delete all the images along with exited containers

Expected behavior
should ask for a prompt in case the user wants to keep them!

Question

This is a great utility script! Is there a way to run this utility in a non-interactive manner? I'm trying to use this as a maintenance script that is launched by my RMM platform without the need to choose options (or have the options as arguments on the command line). Thanks!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• It's kinda hard to understand what modules will do when you select them. Opening default_modules.py every time isn't the solution here.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Add some kind of banner on top of the modules selection screen with some info about them. Maybe inquirer has something to offer.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Switch from inquirer to something else if implementation would be hard or impossible.

Installed via pip, running I get:

mac-cleanup -h
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/rich/.pyenv/versions/3.8.7/bin/mac-cleanup", line 5, in <module>
    from mac_cleanup.cli import main
  File "/Users/rich/.pyenv/versions/3.8.7/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mac_cleanup/cli.py", line 1, in <module>
    from mac_cleanup.utils import CleanUp, cmd, bytes_to_human, catch_exception
  File "/Users/rich/.pyenv/versions/3.8.7/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mac_cleanup/utils.py", line 13, in <module>
    tuple[Type[BaseException]],
TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable

python -V
Python 3.8.7

Hello,

I have some apps that are running in the background. In my specific case, the "Allow in the Background" login items are coming from /Library/LaunchAgents. It would be great to be able to list and delete them in case a user is not interested in having them start up.

Applications that run on Startup
ls -lah /Library/StartupItems

Property list (plist) items running on startup
ls -lah ~ /Library/LaunchAgents
ls -lah /Library/LaunchAgents
ls -lah /Library/LaunchDaemons
ls -lah /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

Applications that launch on User Login
ls -lah /Library/LaunchAgents
ls -lah ~/Library/LaunchAgents
ls -lah /System/Library/LaunchAgents