So you can run brew doctor and get some additional chores you could take care of to have it run properly. Cleanup handles this for you! General Brew Maintenanceīrew is a complicated system, and no one knows it better than the maintainers. You might have used brew prune in the past, but that has been deprecated. Update then remove old formulae and their folders: brew update & brew upgrade & brew cleanup Update, upgrade, and then clean up those files you’re not going to use. This one usually shaves off hundreds of megs of data. Mine is reporting 132.2 GB before cleaning.
But once a year, developers should run through a few manual commands, because auto-cleaners won’t know how to take care of a developer machine.īefore we start, let’s look at how much “Free Space” you’re starting with: Sure, for general maintenance, nothing beats CleanMyMac. But it never cleans a development machine as I can. I love cleaning software? PLZ! Remove duplicates, find old OS cruft etc. Clean up your dev environment you filthy animal!
