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Mole

mole

Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac. Free open-source CLI, plus a native Mac app.

Detected by mo, mole | macOS |mole.fit

Sync it mole.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Mole in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· whitelist Sync

· purge_paths Sync

· ~/Library/Logs/mole/ Exclude

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/mole.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "mole"

name = "Mole"

homepage = "https://mole.fit"

description = "Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac. Free open-source CLI, plus a native Mac app."

# The 192px favicon from mole.fit.

icon = "https://mole.fit/img/favicon-mole-192-ba32c29d.png"

# The command a user types is `mo` — every example in the README runs it

# (`mo clean`, `mo purge`, `mo --help`). Homebrew's formula is named `mole`,

# so both spellings are here.

detect = ["mo", "mole"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# tw93/Mole's README (https://github.com/tw93/Mole), the section describing

# `mo clean --whitelist` and `mo purge --paths`:

# ~/.config/mole/whitelist selections from `mo clean --whitelist`

# ~/.config/mole/purge_paths custom scan directories for `mo purge --paths`

# ~/Library/Logs/mole/operations.log cleanup activity log

# The Homebrew cask `mole-app` names the same directory in its `zap trash:`

# list (~/.config/mole) alongside ~/Library/Logs/mole, which is corroboration

# from a second place.

# Written as a literal ~/.config path, not [configHome]: nothing in Mole's

# documentation says it reads $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and Mole is macOS-only, where

# [configHome] and ~/.config are the same directory anyway.

paths = [

"~/.config/mole/whitelist",

"~/.config/mole/purge_paths",

]

# ~/Library/Logs/mole/operations.log is the activity log named in the same

# README paragraph (it can be turned off with MO_NO_OPLOG=1). It is not under

# any path listed above, so there is nothing to carve out of what is; it is

# named here so a consumer syncing whole directories skips it.

exclude = ["~/Library/Logs/mole/"]

# Mole signs in to nothing and stores no credential.

secret = []

# Each subcommand reads the file and exits.

side_effect = false

# No machine_lines. Both files are lists the user built by hand — the apps and

# caches to spare, the project directories to scan — and carrying them to the

# next Mac is the point of syncing them. They do contain absolute paths, but

# unlike a cache-dir setting those paths *are* the content, so blanking them

# would leave an empty file rather than a portable one.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/mole. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

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