Levo help · Cleaning up

What happens when you clean up

Clean up works on exactly what's ticked, and nothing else. Here's the path from click to freed space.

Step by step

1. Tick. Smartly has ticked what looks safe. Change that however you like.
2. Clean up. Click the button, or press ⌘⌫. A confirm step opens, titled "Clean up 18 GB?" with every item and part listed.
3. Review. Untick anything you want to keep. Each row says whether it will be deleted for good or moved to the Trash.
4. Confirm. Click Clean up again, or press ⌘⌫. The first time, you accept that Levo isn't responsible for what you choose to delete.
5. Cleaning. Levo goes item by item and shows progress, "Cleaning 3 of 6…".
6. Done. A note says how much was freed and what was skipped.

The checks right before

For every item, Levo checks again, just before acting: it still exists, it's still inside a place Levo may touch, nothing has opened it, and it hasn't changed since Levo verified it. Anything that fails is skipped, not forced.

How it's removed

• Levo uses the tool's own clean command first where there is one, such as git worktree remove for a clean merged worktree, or xcrun simctl delete for a simulator.
• Otherwise it deletes the item for good. If you turn on Move to Trash in Settings › Agent, what you clean by hand goes to the Trash instead and can be put back.
• Auto mode always deletes for good.

The licence

Your first two cleanups are free. After that, the button reads Unlock and opens Settings › Licence. See Licence.

Afterwards

Levo measures what was actually freed, which can differ from the listed sizes because of disk clones, and updates its index. A record of every action is kept, which is what makes undo possible.