reclaimed 0.2.9
A powerful disk usage analyzer with iCloud support
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: disk, storage, analyzer, icloud, cli

# reclaimed ♻️

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**reclaimed** is a cross-platform, ultra-lightweight, and surprisingly powerful 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 through an interactive terminal UI.  
Fully supports **Linux**, **macOS**, and **Windows**.

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## ✨ Features

- 🚀 **Legitimately Performant**: Fast recursive directory scanning with ultra-efficient progress updates.
  - Carefully tuned repaint frequency — optimized to avoid slowing results by even 5ms.
  - Separate thread for the clock to keep real-time updates buttery smooth.
- ☁️ **iCloud Aware**: Detects and handles iCloud Drive symlink files vs local storage (macOS).
- 📊 **Beautiful UI**: Powered by [Textualize/rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich) and [Textualize/textual](https://github.com/Textualize/textual).
  - Full keyboard navigation, mouse support, and customizable themes.
- 🖥️ **Interactive Terminal UI**: Browse, manage, and delete files/directories with ease.
- 🗑️ **Safe Deletion**: Remove large files and directories directly from the interface — with confirmation prompts.
- 💾 **Export to JSON**: Save scan results for further analysis or batch operations.
- ⚡ **Real-Time Feedback**: Live progress indicators and graceful handling of permission issues.
- 🛡️ **Actual Privacy**: 100% offline. No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking - can't even check for updates.

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## 📦 Installation

### Prerequisites
- Python 3.8+
- pip (Python package installer)
- (Optional but recommended) Use a virtual environment

### uvx (fastest)
```bash
uvx reclaimed
```

### Install via pip
```bash
pip install reclaimed
```

### Install via Homebrew (macOS)
```bash
brew install taylorwilsdon/tap/reclaimed
```

### Build from Source
```bash
git clone https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/reclaimed.git
cd reclaimed
pip install -e .
```

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## 🚀 Usage

### Basic
```bash
reclaimed ~/Documents
```

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

# Skip specific directories during scanning
reclaimed ~/Documents --skip-dirs node_modules --skip-dirs __pycache__

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

### Options
| Option | Description |
|:------|:------------|
| `PATH` | Directory to scan (default: current directory) |
| `-f, --max-files N` | Number of largest files to show (default: 10) |
| `-d, --max-dirs N` | Number of largest directories to show (default: 10) |
| `-s, --skip-dirs DIR` | Additional directories to skip (can be specified multiple times) |
| `-o, --output FILE` | Save results to a JSON file |
| `-i, --interactive` | Launch the interactive Textual UI |

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## 🎛️ Interactive Mode

Interactive mode is on by default. Non-interactive mode (minimal output) can be forced with:

```bash
reclaimed ~/Documents --no-interactive
```

### Keyboard Shortcuts
| Key | Action | | Key | Action |
|-----|--------|-|-----|--------|
| `F` | Files view | | `Delete` | Remove item |
| `D` | Directories view | | `R` | Refresh scan |
| `S` | Sort items | | `Q` | Quit |
| `H` | Hide directory | | `U` | Unhide all directories |

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## 📊 Output

### CLI Mode
- Real-time progress indicator (files scanned, total size)
- Tables of largest files and directories
- iCloud vs local storage clearly indicated
- Summary of any access issues

### Interactive Mode
- Tabbed interface: switch between Files and Directories
- Keyboard navigation (arrow keys) and mouse support
- Sort items by size, name, or path
- Delete files/directories with confirmation
- Refresh scan results

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## 🛠️ Development

This project uses [UV](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) for building/publishing and [Hatch](https://hatch.pypa.io/) for workflow management.

### Setup Development Environment
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
hatch shell
```

### Common Commands
```bash
# Run tests
hatch test

# Build distribution packages
uv build --sdist --wheel

# Create a new release
./release.sh

# Run interactively
python -m reclaimed /path/to/scan
```

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## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!  
Please see the [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

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## 📜 License

This project is licensed under the **MIT License**.  
See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for full details.

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<p align="center">
  <sub>Built with ❤️ for those who love clean disks and clean code.</sub>
</p>