Update: Added External Drive and USB Cleaning Functionality
Changes Made:
New Feature: External Drive and USB Cleaning
- Introduced a function clean_external_drives to detect and clean mounted external drives and USB devices.
- The script now scans for external devices, checks their mount points, and applies the safe_rm function to clean them.
Improved Output Messages:
- Added color-coded output messages to indicate the status of each cleaning operation more clearly.
Refactoring and Cleanup:
- Refactored existing code for better readability and maintainability.
- Ensured that all primary cleaning operations are maintained and enhanced with the new external drive cleaning capability.
Script Overview:
- The script performs comprehensive system cleaning, including cache files, logs, temporary files, Time Machine snapshots, and more.
- External drives and USB devices are now included in the cleaning process, ensuring that all connected storage devices are cleaned.
- Usage:
- Run the script as usual. The cleaning of external drives and USB devices will be handled automatically if they are detected and mounted.
Example Output:
Removing .DS_Store files...Done!
Cleaning cache files...Done!
Restarting network services...Done!
Cleaning system logs and crash reports...Done!
Cleaning temporary files...Done!
Removing items from trash...Done!
Cleaning Time Machine snapshots...Done!
Updating Spotlight index...Done!
Cleaning Dock data sources...Done!
Cleaning external drives...
Cleaning /Volumes/ExternalDrive1...Done!
Cleaning /Volumes/USBDevice1...Done!
Free space after cleaning: 50G
- This update significantly enhances the script's functionality, making it a more robust and versatile cleaning tool for macOS systems.