Hyperspace for Mac is a new app that reclaims disk space without actually deleting files

Is your Mac running low on local storage? Try this new app before you start sacrificing files. It turns out the Mac has this ability to reclaim disk space without actually deleting files in some instances. If you’re a programmer like John Siracusa, you can write a script that will make use of this capability. If you’re like me and programming isn’t a language that you speak, Siracusa’s new Hyperspace macOS app is here to help. Siracusa explains how Hyperspace came to be in a blog post today on Hypercritical: Today, most Mac users don’t even notice that using the “Duplicate” command in the Finder to make a copy of a file doesn’t actually copy the file’s contents. […] There are plenty of Mac apps that will save disk space by finding duplicate files and then deleting the duplicates. Using APFS clones, my app could reclaim disk space without removing any files! As a digital pack rat, this appealed to me immensely. By the end of that week, I’d written a barebones Mac app to do the same ... Read full article.