Review and the Trash

Staging, re-verification, what the Trash frees, and what cannot be moved.

Review first

Add to Review stages items in a queue. Nothing moves until you confirm. Move to Trash in the inspector does the same for one item, or for every selected item, with a confirmation.

Checked again

Before an item moves, SpareDisk checks that it is still the same file: same identity, size and date, still inside the location. Anything that changed is skipped and listed with the reason.

What the Trash frees

Moving to the Trash frees nothing by itself. Space returns when you empty the Trash in Finder. Cloned files and files with several hard links may free less than their size.

Items SpareDisk cannot move

Apps and files owned by the system or another user need an administrator password, which only Finder can ask for. Cloud files that are not downloaded are managed in Finder as well. A running app should be quit first. SpareDisk says so on the item and offers Finder.

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