How to uninstall Screaming Frog SEO Spider on a Mac, and the 1.2 GB hidden folder it keeps
Screaming Frog keeps a 1.2 GB hidden folder in your home: its own copy of Chrome, Node and JavaFX. On our Mac it stayed after the app was gone.
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Mac storage, explained.
What fills your disk, where it hides, and what is safe to remove. Every guide gives you a way to check it on your own Mac.
How to uninstall Pandoc on a Mac, and why a document converter takes 263 MB
Pandoc is one command, and on our Mac it was 263 MB. How to remove it with Homebrew or the installer package, and the LaTeX install it may have pulled in.
How to uninstall Watchman on a Mac, and the LaunchAgent Homebrew does not remove
Watchman installs itself as a login agent the first time it runs. brew uninstall leaves that agent behind. The full removal, in the right order.
How to uninstall mongosh and the MongoDB database tools on a Mac
brew refuses to remove mongosh while the MongoDB server depends on it. How to remove the shell, the 126 MB of database tools, and its history file.
How to uninstall fzf on a Mac without breaking your shell
fzf's key bindings are loaded from ~/.fzf.zsh by a line in .zshrc. Remove fzf first and every new Terminal window errors. The right order, measured.
How to uninstall CMake on a Mac, from Homebrew or the CMake app
CMake can be on your Mac twice: Homebrew's and the CMake.app with its command links. How to tell which you have, remove both, and find build folders.
How to uninstall pnpm on a Mac, and its 1.6 GB store
pnpm can be installed several ways at once, and its store lives in ~/Library/pnpm. On our Mac there were two copies and 1.6 GB of store and cache.
How to uninstall Yarn on a Mac, and its two caches
Yarn 1 and Yarn 2 and later cache in different places. On our Mac that was 1.0 GB in Library/Caches/Yarn and 767 MB in ~/.yarn/berry, plus two yarn commands.
Homebrew still lists apps you deleted: why, and how to clear the records
Deleting a Homebrew app by hand leaves its Caskroom record. On our Mac four casks were listed as installed with no app behind them. How to find and clear them.
What is the Chrome Apps folder on a Mac, and is it safe to delete?
Chrome puts a Chrome Apps folder inside the Applications folder in your home folder. What each app in it is, and how to remove one properly from Chrome.
What is the DuetExpertCenter folder on a Mac, and why is it 280 MB?
~/Library/DuetExpertCenter holds macOS's app and action predictions. On our Mac it was 280 MB, 90% of it in one folder. What it is, and what deleting it does.
What is the Daemon Containers folder on a Mac, and what are the long ID folders inside?
~/Library/Daemon Containers holds sandboxed data for macOS background services, in folders named by ID. 183 MB on our Mac. What it is and how to tell them apart.