Build log

Notes from building Diskling, a Mac disk space app, in public: what I find on real Macs, what breaks, and what ships.

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Build log
186 GB
said du. The real number was 64 GB.
watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd in 92 seconds
13 swapfiles and LOW swap space
$ du -sh /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator
186G
$ du -shx /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator
3.0G
4 min read

The 186 GB that wasn’t, and the 41.6 GB that stayed

A frozen Mac, a wrong du reading, and five deleted copies of iOS that no tool lists anymore.