reclaimed 0.1.4

A powerful disk usage analyzer with iCloud support

reclaimed 🌟

A powerful and user-friendly command-line tool for analyzing disk usage, with special handling for iCloud storage on macOS. Quickly find your largest files and directories with a beautiful, color-coded interface, and manage them with an interactive terminal UI.

Features

• 🚀 Fast recursive directory scanning, legitimately performant and batches progress updates efficiently
• ☁️ Smart detection of iCloud vs local storage which is nice on the macbook
• 📊 Beautiful UI (utilizing Textualize/rich and Textualize/textual libraries)
• 🖥️ Interactive terminal UI for browsing and managing files/directories
• 🗑️ Delete large files and directories directly from the interface
• 💾 Export results to JSON for further analysis or batch operations
• ⚡️ Real-time progress indication
• 🛡️ Graceful handling of permission issues

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher
• pip (Python package installer)
• Technically not a venv but if you aren't using a venv you're generally doing python wrong

Using pip (preferred)

pip install reclaimed

From Source

git clone https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/reclaimed.git
cd reclaimed
pip install -r requirements.txt
hatch shell

Usage

Basic usage:

reclaimed ~/Documents

Advanced options:

# Show more results
reclaimed ~/Documents --files 20 --dirs 15

# Save results to JSON
reclaimed ~/Documents --output results.json

Options

• PATH: Directory to scan (default: current directory)
• -f, --files N: Number of largest files to show (default: 10)
• -d, --dirs N: Number of largest directories to show (default: 10)
• -o, --output FILE: Save results to JSON file
• -i, --interactive: Launch the interactive Textual UI

Output

CLI Mode

The tool provides:

• A real-time progress indicator showing files scanned and total size
• Two tables showing the largest files and directories
• Clear indication of iCloud vs local storage
• Summary of any access issues encountered

Interactive Mode

The interactive UI provides:

• Tabbed interface to switch between files and directories views
• Keyboard navigation (arrow keys) to browse through items
• Ability to sort items by size, name, or path
• File/directory deletion with confirmation dialog
• Refresh capability to update the scan results

Development

This project uses Hatch for development workflow management.

Setup Development Environment

pip install -r requirements.txt
hatch shell

Common Commands

# Run tests
hatch run test

# Run tests with coverage
hatch run test-cov

# Run linting (black, ruff, mypy)
hatch run lint

# Build distribution packages
hatch build

# Run with interactive UI
python -m reclaimed /path/to/scan

Interactive Mode

The interactive mode launches automatically, or with the -i or --interactive flag:

reclaim ~/Documents -i

Non-interactive mode can be enabled (prints a simpler output with very low overhead) with --no-interactive

reclaim ~/Documents --no-interactive

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
F	Switch to Files view
D	Switch to Directories view
S	Sort items
R	Refresh scan
Delete	Delete selected item
?	Show help
Q	Quit application
Arrow keys	Navigate through items

Features

• Tabbed Interface: Toggle between Files and Directories views
• Sorting: Sort items by size (default), name, or path
• File Management: Delete files and directories with confirmation
• Solarized Dark Theme: Easy on the eyes for extended use

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.